Communication/sco

Thaur's several waas tae get in contact wi ither MediaWiki uisers or tae get instant heelp.

Landin
Thir ar guid first steps:


 * Register and add some info about yourself in your user page.
 * Follow the News and our social media channels.
 * Subscribe to wikitech-announce to receive email notifications about new activities.
 * Join IRC channel and perhaps more.


 * Make sure you have an email confirmed and email notifications enabled in your mediawiki.org preferences.
 * "Watch" (click the star icon of) the pages you want to follow and perhaps contribute to.
 * All the better if you find a MediaWiki Group that matches your location or interests!

Tauk
#mediawiki oan irc.freenode.net is the roond-the-clock fer realtime communication. Gif ye dinna hae aen IRC client, uise wab tauk.


 * Please read the afore speirin.
 * State yer proablem immeedeeatelie n wait fer ae response. Dinna say "is thaur oniebodie here" or "can somebodie heelp me". This is normal IRC etiquette n permits parteecipants tae multítask effecteevelie.
 * Expect tae wait fer ae while fer aen ineetial response, especiallie in aff-peak times. Despite this, oot o courtesie fer the volunteer that's heelpin ye, ettle tae answer thair speirinns promptlie.

Gif ye dinna get aen answer, this coud mean yin o ae nummer o things:


 * Nawbodie wis roond at the time o day that ye chose. Gif the channel is generallie quiet, come back later.
 * Ye'r speirin ae speirin that nawbodie kens the answer til, or that needs ae lot o wairk tae answer.
 * Ye'r speirin ae speirin thats in the, the , the , or ither , n the volunteers in the channel feel that it wid be best gif ye foond it yersel.

Speirins relatin til proablems wi yer parteecular instawation o MediaWiki ar generallie best answered oan IRC, sin thay aften need ae back-n-forth exchange tae isolate the proablem, this is teedeeoos whan dun oan the mailin leets.

Mailin leets
Thaur's several available. The recommended yins ar:


 * mediawiki-l (or bi waa o Gmane) (or bi waa o yer newsreader) is the hei-traffeec mailin leet tae speir fer support.
 * wikitech-l (or bi waa o Gmane) (or bi waa o yer newsreader) is the hei-traffeec mailin leet fer saffware deveeelopmant, especiallie whan it relates til Wikimedia (na jist MediaWiki) wikis.
 * mediawiki-announce (or bi wa o Gmane) (or bi waa o yer newsreader) is ae law-traffeec leet fer annooncemants o new MediaWiki releases n securitie updates (aw messages gang til mediawiki-l ava).

Please check the archyves first! Aw three leets ar available throoch Gmane ava, this gies access aes newsgroops or in ae varitie o wab-based formats, n incluids its ain archyves n archyve rake.

Twitter/Facebook/Identi.ca
Follae the MediaWiki accoonts:

Mair details at. 
 * @MediaWiki (Twitter)
 * @MediaWiki (Identi.ca)
 * MediaWiki (Facebook)

Blog
The Wikimedia Blog haes ae tech section speceeficlie fer news n information fae the Wikimedia Foondation’s Technologie department (link - RSS feed).

Newsletter
Ingils Wikipædia's Signpost haes ae regular technologie report wi content relatit til acteevitie wiin Wikimedia Foondation’s Technologie department.

Wabsteids

 * Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki wis formerlie whaur documents were managed n proposals were discussed afore this steid wis stairtit. Thaur's still ae lot o content thaur that haesna been muived.
 *  is whaur featur requests n bugs can be reportit or broused.

Fer heelp wi the MediaWiki saffware
Thaur's nae "offeecial" forum or tauk buird, bit thaur's some onoffeecial yins, fer instance oan StackExchange. See the MediaWiki Deveelopers Facebook groop ava.

Ye can post support speirins at Project:Support desk ava, thooch this is less frequented than the ither soorces o heelp leeted oan this page.

Tae tauk aneat this steid, MediaWiki.org

 * Project:Issues The Nou