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Communication
There are several ways you can get into contact with the Wikimedia community.


 * Feel free to ask your developer questions on https://discourse-mediawiki.wmflabs.org.
 * For real-time communication use on IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
 * There are also several e-mail lists for discussion of Wikimedia software. A complete list is available.
 * You can also follow and share Wikimedia news across your social network.
 * You can also subscribe to Tech News to receive a weekly summary on your user talk page of recent software changes, without technical jargon.

Editing and discussing in MediaWiki
If you have not used MediaWiki before:


 * Register your user account on mediawiki.org.
 * Learn how to edit wiki pages with VisualEditor or editing the source.
 * Feel free to edit your public user page. Introduce yourself. You may use the User Info Template. Learn more reading the Wikipedia instructions.
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 * You can discuss the content of each page in its related Discussion page. You can communicate with users by adding a public message in their discussion pages. Learn more at.