Mailing lists/Overview
These are the mailing lists of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization in the state of Florida which operates Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikiversity and other wiki-based projects.
A mailing list is like a shared email address: messages sent to that address are distributed to all members (subscribers) of the list. See the Wikipedia article on mailing lists for more information.
Archives are available for online reading; posting generally requires signing up. The mailman list overview page can be found at mail:. Some lists can be searched and read (as threads, blogs or RSS or with a NNTP newsreader) on Gmane, see links (and gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia, gmane.org.wikimedia).
See the main mailing list page for more information on Wikimedia lists.
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[edit] Wikimedia
[edit] Wikimedia Foundation
Lists relating to the Wikimedia Foundation
- foundation-l (archive, gmane) – mailing list for the Wikimedia Foundation, see foundation-l
- WikimediaAnnounce-l (archive, gmane) – General Wikimedia announcements low traffic list; forwards and replies-to foundation-l (see Mailing lists/Wikimedia Announce)
[edit] Interest group lists
Lists for various topics
- translators-l (archive, gmane) – a list for discussing and announcing translations across the Wikimedia projects
- Cultural Partners-l - GLAM & Cultural sector outreach
- WikiLovesMonuments (archive) – Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
- Education (archive) – Wikimedia and Education
- wiki-research-l (archive, gmane) – low volume list for people who are actively engaged in research on the Wikipedia project
- wiki-offline-reader-l (archive) – list for the co-ordination of work on a free offline MediaWiki reader
- mobile-l (archive) – a list for announcing and discussing work on the wikipedia mobile server and all of its supported mobile platforms.
- wikiquality-l (archive) discussions regarding the design and implementation of quality-related technology for Wikimedia projects, as well as quality policies and initiatives.
- wikix-l planning for Wikipedia's 10th anniversary
- gendergap -- discussing the gender gap on Wikimedia project
- Museum-l -- for museum professionals
- Libraries -- Wikipedia and Libraries -- all things Wikipedian and librarian, and the inevitable love affair between the two.
[edit] Internal, governance and committee lists
These lists have to do with specific committees or internal operations, and often require approval to join
- internal-l – Internal list for Wikimedia Foundation board, Legal officers, & boards of local chapters (see instructions for chapters).
- oversight-l (archive) – Private mailing list for Oversight users.
- stewards-l (archive) – Private mailing list for Stewards.
- checkuser-l (archive) – Private mailing list for CheckUser users.
- rcom-l (archive) – Research Committee.
- fundraising – Fundraising discussions, see Mailing lists/Fundraising.
- treasurers (archive) – Mainly for treasurers and auditors of Wikimedia organizations, but also for interested individuals; public archives.
- langcom-l – Language committee.
- langcom-observers – language committee observers.
[edit] Wikimania
- wikimania-l (archive, gmane) for announcements and discussion about the Wikimania conference
- Wikimania 2010 (archive, gmane) (Polish)
[edit] Wikimedia chapters
Lists for Wikimedia chapters
Chapters-reports (archive) – announcement mailing list for all Wikimedia chapters(now merged into Wikimedia Announcements)- Private general lists
- Iberocoop list
- WikimediaAU-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Australian chapter
- Wikimediabr-l (archive) – for matters relating to the planned Brazilian chapter
- Wikimedia-ca (archive) – for matters relating to the planned Canadian chapter
- WikimediaCH-l (archive, gmane) for matters relating to the Swiss chapter.
- WikimediaCZ-l (archive) for matters relating to the Czech chapter.
- VereinAT-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Austrian chapter
- VereinDE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the German chapter
- Wikimediaindia-l (archive) - for matters relating to the Indian chapter
- WikimediaFR-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the French chapter
- WikimediaNL-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Dutch chapter
- WikimediaPL-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Polish chapter
- WikimediaPT-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the PT chapter
- WikimediaRO-l (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Romanian chapter
- WikimediaRU-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Russian chapter
- WikimediaSE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the Swedish chapter
- WikimediaSR-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Serbian chapter
- WikimediaRS-info (archive) – Wikimedia Serbia Info (previously WikimediaSCG-INFO, now superseded)
- WikimediaUA (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Ukrainian chapter
- WikimediaUK-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the UK chapter
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- Wikimedia-TW (archive) – for matters relating to the TW chapter
- WikimediaZA (archive) - for matters relating to the proposed South African chapter
- Wikimedia_NYC (archive) – New York City area Wikimedians
[edit] Regional mailing lists
Lists for established meetup groups in particular locations.
- Wikimedia-Boston (archive) – Boston area Wikimedians -- meetup group
- Wikimedia-KH (archive) – Wikimedia Cambodia/ Khmer Wikipedia mailing list -- meetup group
- Wikimedia-SF (archive) – San Francisco Bay area Wikimedians -- meetup group
- WikimediaIE (archive) – Ireland Wikimedians
- Wikimedia-BD (archive) – Bangladeshi Wikimedians
[edit] Mediawiki and technical
Lists related to software and technical matters
[edit] Development
- wikitech-l (archive, gmane) – Wikimedia technology platform development and maintenance
- maps-l (archive, gmane) – Integration of OpenStreetMap and other free maps, coordinates and geographic data
- wikibugs-l (gmane archive) – automated notifications of bug reports
- wikibots-l (archive) – discussion list for bot-editor users on Wikimedia sites
[edit] mediawiki
- mediawiki-l (archive, gmane) – General MediaWiki software development and help list
- mediawiki-announce (archive, gmane) – update and security announcements only (low-traffic)
- mediawiki-api (archive, gmane) – announcement & discussion list for MediaWiki API
- mediawiki-codereview (gmane) – MediaWiki CodeReview Comments
- mediawiki-cvs (gmane) – automated notifications of Subversion commits
- mediawiki-enterprise (archive, gmane)
- mediawiki-i18n (archive, gmane) – MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup
- mediawiki-sv (archive) – Swedish language discussions about the MediaWiki software (closed).
- wikitext-l (archive, gmane) – markup and parsers discussions
- SemanticMediaWiki (archive, gmane)
- SemanticMediaWiki users (archive, gmane)
[edit] pywikipedia
- pywikipedia-announce (archive) – for important python mediawiki bot announcements (important bugfixes, updates and notes)
- pywikipedia-l (archive, gmane) – for discussion (user and developer) about the pywikipediabot framework (messages from pywikipedia-announce are sent here, too)
- pywikipedia-svn (archive, gmane) – pywikipediabot SVN (version management) updates
- pywikipedia-bugs (archive) – pywikipediabot bug tracker announcement (sourceforge.net)
[edit] toolserver
- toolserver-announce (archive) – important announcements about and regarding the toolserver
- toolserver-l (archive, gmane) – for discussion about and regarding the toolserver
[edit] huggle
[edit] Project mailing lists
- wikipedia-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikipedia (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikisource-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikisource
- textbook-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikibooks (see below for local mailing lists)
- wiktionary-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wiktionary (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikinews-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikinews (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikiversity-l (archive) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikiversity
- wikispecies-l (archive) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikispecies
- commons-l (archive, gmane) – for the Wikimedia Commons-related discussion
- Commons-poty (archive, gmane) – Picture of the day
- wikiquote-l (archive) – for Wikiquote-related discussion
- incubator (archive) – list for Wikimedia Incubator-related discussion
- Wikimediameta-l (archive, gmane) – list for issues specific for the Meta-Wiki (the wiki where you are now)
[edit] Local Wikipedia mailing lists
- wikials-l (archive) (Alemannisch)
- wikiar-l (archive, gmane) (العربية)
- wikica-l (archive) (Català)
- wikida-l (archive, gmane) (Dansk)
- wikide-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
- wikien-l (archive, gmane) (English)
- daily-article-l (archive, gmane) – sends the current article featured on the Main Page to all subscribers
- accounts-enwiki-l (archive) – used to create accounts for new users who can't create one themselves, and internal discussion between the Account Creation Team
- wikien-bureaucrats (archive) – English Wikipedia's Bureaucrat's mailing list; correspondence and project contact.
- ambassador-announce-l (archive) – English Wikipedia Ambassadors
- wikieo-l (archive, gmane) (Esperanto)
- wikies-l (archive, gmane) (Español)
- wikieu-l (archive, gmane) (Español)
- wikifa-l (archive) (فارسی)
- wikifi-l (archive) (Suomi)
- wikifr-l (archive, gmane) (Français)
- wikihe-l (archive) (עברית)
- wikihi-l (archive) (हिन्दी)
- wikihu-l (archive) (Magyar)
- wikiia-l (archive) (Interlingua)
- wikiid-l (archive) (Bahasa Indonesia)
- wikiis-l (archive) (Íslenska)
- wikiit-l (archive, gmane) (Italiano)
- wikikn-l (archive) (ಕನ್ನಡ)
- wikilb-l (archive) (Lëtzebuergesch)
- wikija-l (archive) (日本語)
- wikiko-l (archive) (한국어)
- wikimk-l (archive) (Македонски)
- wikiml-l (archive) (മലയാളം)
- wikinl-l (archive, gmane) (Nederlands)
- wikinn-l (archive) (Norsk (nynorsk))
- wikino-l (archive, gmane) (Norsk (bokmål))
- wikipl-l (archive, gmane) (Polski)
- wikipt (archive, gmane) (Português)
- wikiro-l (archive) (Română)
- wikiru-l (archive, gmane) (Русский)
- wikisa-l (archive) (संस्कृतम्)
- wikisk-l (archive) (Slovenčina)
- wikiskan-l (archive) (new all-Scandinavian list)
- wikisv-l (archive, gmane) (Svenska)
- wikita-l (archive) (தமிழ்)
- wikite-l (archive) (తెలుగు)
- wikitr-l (archive) (Türkçe)
- wikiuk-l (archive) (Українська)
- wikivi-l (archive, gmane) (Tiếng Việt)
- wikizh-l (archive, gmane) (中文)
- wikipedia-or (archive) (ଓଡ଼ିଆ)
[edit] Local Wiktionary mailing lists
- WiktionaryDE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
- WiktionaryPT-l (archive) (Português)
[edit] Local Wikibooks mailing lists
- WikibooksDE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
[edit] Local and otherwise Wikinews mailing lists
- Wikinews-DE-l (archive)
- Wikinews-accreditation (archive) – Verifying accreditation requests
- Wikinews-hotline (archive) – Voicemails submitted to the Wikinews hotline
- Wikinews-fa (archive) (فارسی)
- Wikinews-zh (archive)
[edit] Local Wikiversity mailing lists
[edit] Defunct
- intlwiki-l (external archive, gmane) – formerly for Wikipedia internationalisation and multilingual coordination, closed in favor of wikipedia-l (for project-wide issues), wikitech-l (for tech issues) and requests for permissions (for administrative setup on small wikis): see Mailing list merge[1]
- wikilegal-l (archive) – legal & licensing issues, deprecated by foundation-l and the individual project mailing lists
- Juriwiki-l (archive) – for legal issues
- announce-l (archive, gmane) – Wikizine newsletter
- wikizine-de (archive, gmane) – German
- wikizine-id (archive, gmane) – Indonesian
- wikizine-es (archive, gmane) – Spanish
- Nupedia had a number of mailing lists. Of particular interest:
[edit] See also
There are other ways of communicating with the community besides mailing lists. Some of them include:
- Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (this wiki!) – a general discussion and brainstorming wiki
- Wikimedia IRC channels – live chat
- Village pump equivalents on different projects – for discussions relating to the specific project: see Distribution list for a list