Communication/ie

It existe divers manieres por contacter altri usatores de MediaWiki o por strax reciver auxilie.

Arriva
To es bon unesim passus:


 * Registra e addí quelc information pri te self sur tui págine.
 * Secue li Novitás e nor canales de social media.
 * Abonna wikitech-announce por reciver e-postal notificationes pri nov activitás.
 * Junte te al IRC-canale e forsan altri.


 * Assecura, que tu have un e-posta confirmat e ha activat notificationes per e-posta in tui preferenties de mediawiki.org.

Chat
#mediawiki sur irc.freenode.net es li sempre activ por communication in real témpore. Si tu ne possede un IRC-client, usa web chat.


 * Ples leer li antequam posir un question.
 * Descrí strax tui problema e attende un response. Ne questiona "esque alquí es ci" o "esque alquí posse auxiliar me". To es normal IRC-etiquette e permisse participantes effectivmen multitaskar.

Si tu ne recive un response, li causes por to posse esser divers:


 * Nequí es present. Si li canal es generalmen quiet, reveni plu tard.
 * You're asking a question which nobody knows the answer to, or which requires a lot of work to answer.
 * You're asking a question which is in the FAQ, the help, the manual, or other documentation, and the volunteers in the channel feel it would be best if you found it yourself.

Normalmen questiones, queles relate a problemas pri tui particular installation de MediaWiki, es max aptmen respondet in IRC, nam illi sovente besona un interchange de missagies por decerner li problema, quo es fatigant in listes de e-posta.

Listes de e-posta
It existe divers. Recommendat listes es:


 * mediawiki-l (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is the high-traffic mailing list to ask for help with using or setting up MediaWiki.
 * wikitech-l (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is the high-traffic mailing list for both MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development.
 * mediawiki-announce (or via Gmane) (or via your newsreader) is a low-traffic list for announcements of new MediaWiki releases and security updates (all messages also go to mediawiki-l).
 * wikitech-ambassadors Announcements about upcoming changes on Wikimedia websites. This list is primarily aimed at end users of Wikimedia wikis, not the MediaWiki software in general.

Please check the archives first! All three lists are also available through Gmane which provides access as newsgroups or in various web-based formats, and includes its own archives and archive search.

Twitter/Facebook
Follow the MediaWiki accounts:


 * @MediaWiki (Twitter)
 * MediaWiki (Facebook)
 * MediaWiki (Google+, less updated)

More details at. 

Blog

 * The Wikimedia Blog has a tech section specifically for news and information from the Wikimedia Foundation’s Technology department (link - RSS feed).
 * There are some tech blogs hosted on phabricator.
 * The English Wikimedia planet blog aggergator sometimes contains tech stuff mixed in with posts mostly about non-technical aspects of Wikimedia projects.

Newsletter
English Wikipedia's Signpost has a regular technology report with content related to activity within Wikimedia Foundation’s Technology department. Also see Wikimedia's Tech/News, which covers all the technical activity happening across the Wikimedia movement.

Websites

 * Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki was formerly where documents were managed and proposals were discussed before this site was started. There is still a lot of content there that has yet to be moved.
 *  is where feature requests and bugs may be reported or browsed.
 * Translatewiki is a MediaWiki site that allows collaborative translation, including of MediaWiki software.

For help with the MediaWiki software
There are a couple of forums around the internet where you can get help both with using MediaWiki and with setting up MediaWiki.


 * Project:Support desk
 * StackExchange  (Unofficial)
 * MediaWiki Users forum (Unofficial)

To discuss this site, MediaWiki.org

 * Project:Current issues