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

Forums

Fer halp wi the MediaWiki saffware

Thaur's twa three forums boot the internet whaur ye can get halp baith wi uisin MediaWiki n wi settin up MediaWiki.

• Waurk:Support desk
• Wikimedia Deveeloper Support (Tauk)
• MediaWiki Uisers forum (Onoffeecial)
• StackExchange's #mediawiki tag (RSS feed) (Onoffeecial)
• Reddit's MediaWiki groop (Onoffeecial)

Basics

Thir's guid first steps:

• Register n eik some info aneat yersel oan yer uiser page.
• Follae the News n oor social media channels.
• Check the newsletters that ye can subscreeb tae.
• Joyn $mediawiki-irc IRC channel n mibbie mair.

• Mak sair that ye hae aen email address confirmed n email annooncemants enabled in yer mediawiki.org preferances.
• "Watch" (clap the stair icon o) the pages that ye want tae follae n perhaps contreebute tae.
• Aw the better gif ye fynd ae MediaWiki Groop that matches yer location or interests!

• Ye'r speirin ae speirin that's in the ASS, the halp, the manual, or ither documentation, n the volunteers in the channel feel that it wid be best gif ye foond it yersel.

Tauk

[#mediawiki ^connect #mediawiki] oan irc.freenode.net is the roond-the-clock IRC channel fer realtime communication. Gif ye dinna hae aen IRC client, uise [#wikimedia-dev ^connect wab tauk].

• Please read the $1 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 allous 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 tae, or that needs ae lot o wairk tae answer.

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 Mailing lists available. The recommended yins ar:

• mediawiki-l (or bi wa o Gmane) (or bi wa o yer newsreader) is the hei-traffic mailin leet tae speir fer halp wi uisin or settin up MediaWiki.
• wikitech-l (or bi wa o Gmane) (or bi wa o yer newsreader) is the hei-traffic mailin leet fer baith MediaWiki n Wikimedia sffware deveelopment.
• mediawiki-announce (or bi wa o Gmane) (or bi way o yer newsreader) is ae law-traffic leet fer announcements o new MediaWiki releases n securitie updates (aw messages gae tae mediawiki-l n aw).
• wikitech-ambassadors Announcements aneat upcomin changes oan Wikimedia wabstieds. Fer the maist pairt, this leet is aimed at end uisers o Wikimedia wikis, no the MediaWiki saffware in general.

Please check the archyves first! Aw three leets ar available throo Gmane n aw, this gies access aes newsgroops or in sindrie wab-based formats, n incluids its ain archyves n archyve rake.

Social Media

Follae the MediaWiki accoonts:

• @MediaWiki (Twitter)
• MediaWiki (Facebook)

Mair details at Social media .

Blog

• The Wikimedia Tech Blog is a venue to share stories from Wikimedia's technical community across and beyond Wikimedia-tech. See the editorial guidelines for more information.

• Thaur's some tech blogs hostit oan phabricator.

• The English Wikimedia planet blog aggregator sometimes contains tech stuff mixed in wi posts maistlie aneat non-techneecal aspects o Wikimedia waurks.

Newsletter

See Wikimedia's Tech/News n aw, this covers aw the techneecal acteevitie happenin aw ower the Wikimedia muivment.

• There are further newsletters that you can subscribe to.

Groups

• There are several MediaWiki Groups which could match your location or interests.
• The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group aims to advocate the needs of MediaWiki users.

Wabsteids

• Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki uisd tae be whaur documents were managed n proposals were taukt aneat afore this steid wis stairtit. Thaur's still ae heap o content thaur that's no been muived.
• Phabricator is whaur featur requests n bugs can be reportit or broused.

• Translatewiki is ae MediaWiki steid that allous collaborateev owersetin, inclaedin o MediaWiki saffware.