Communication

From mediawiki.org

Get in contact with other MediaWiki users and developers, or follow Wikimedia and MediaWiki related news and stories.

Get help or support

Forums

Get help both with using MediaWiki and setting up MediaWiki:

Ask any questions related to MediaWiki installations.

Get help as a Wikimedia community member on technical questions related to your Wikimedia wiki.

MediaWiki users forum. (unofficial)

Posts on Stackexchange.com tagged with #mediawiki. (unofficial)

Reddit's MediaWiki group. (unofficial)

Chat

Find help in real time on chat servers. They are sorted by their activity.

Discuss wiki installation, operation, skinning, custom developments. (unofficial) Find out more.

IRC channels

Find out more.

For movement-wide discussions, not just technical matters. Find out more.

Get help and discuss as an applicant or participant of Wikimedia's Outreach programs . Find out more.

Mailing lists

Post on mailing lists:

Ask for help with using or setting up MediaWiki on the high-traffic list mediawiki-l.

Discuss MediaWiki and Wikimedia software development on the medium-traffic list wikitech-l.

There are more Mailing lists available.

Report software bugs and feature requests

Report and browse bugs and feature requests for most Wikimedia software in Phabricator .

Contact software maintainers

A list of maintainers of Wikimedia software is available at Developers/Maintainers . You can leave a note on their talk page or send them an email to contact them.

If you cannot find the maintainers of a project you are looking for at Developers/Maintainers , try finding the maintainers on the project page of the software on mediawiki.org, the project owners of the project on Phabricator , or the contributors to the project on Gerrit .

Learn, explore, and follow

Stay informed about news and changes.

Mailing lists

Subscribe to mailing lists:

mediawiki-announce is a low-traffic list for announcements of new MediaWiki releases and security updates (all messages also go to mediawiki-l).

wikitech-ambassadors announces the most important technical changes happening on Wikimedia websites. This list is aimed at end users of Wikimedia wikis, not MediaWiki software in general. You can also follow these announcements on Wikimedia wikis via Tech News.

Join groups with shared interests

The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group aims to advocate the needs of MediaWiki users.

The MediaWiki Farmers user group is a group of developers who work on wiki farms.

User Groups are open groups organized by themes and areas of interest.

Special Interest Groups are smaller organized groups focused on shared technical concerns.

Social Media

Follow our accounts:

@MediaWiki on Twitter

News from the MediaWiki project.

MediaWiki on Facebook

News from the MediaWiki project.

@WikimediaTech on Twitter

News from the Wikimedia technical movement.

@watchmediawiki on YouTube

Videos and event streams related to MediaWiki and Wikimedia technology.

Blogs

Read stories:

The Wikimedia Tech Blog shares stories from Wikimedia's technical community across and beyond Wikimedia technology.

The English Wikimedia planet blog aggregator contains technical posts mixed with posts about non-technical aspects of Wikimedia projects.

Newsletters

Subscribe to Wikimedia newsletters which cover certain areas of technical interest. You may want to first check their archives to see how active a newsletter is.

Share your knowledge

Wikimedia Technical Talks

Give a Technical Talk video presentation. (currently on pause)