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The Wikimedia Foundation has a number of mailing lists which are open to anyone who subscribes. Please see the list descriptions for posting information. Most lists are moderated, so that posts by nonmembers need to be manually approved. Some lists disallow any posts by nonmembers.
An overview of all existing mailing lists is at Mailing lists/overview; an automatically generated list of public mailing lists, arranged alphabetically, is here.
Please respect Wikiquette and avoid personal attacks on the mailing lists, especially in the subject header as this is likely to be repeated by those replying. To request a new mailing list, see the instructions below.
Mailing lists are available in a number of formats: via a web archive, by email, or by NNTP using the mail-to-news gateway Gmane. Offsite archives of Wikipedia's mailing lists can be found at Gmane, MARC, and MarkMail.
Mailing list posts in the web-based archives are indexed by search engines such as Google - to search the archives, you can restrict your search by server name (add site:lists.wikimedia.org, e.g. [1]) or by the directory containing a particular list's archive (site:lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/<list name>, e.g. site:lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l ...) [all lists were moved to a lists.wikimedia.org domain in January 2007; however, depending on each search engine, searching the prior domain (either "mail.wikipedia.org" or "mail.wikimedia.org") may work better]
Some of the mailing lists are occasionally summarized at the List Summary Service page.
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[edit] Organizations
[edit] Wikimedia Foundation mailing list
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia and its sister projects, has its own mailing list, foundation-l. If you care about fundraising, starting new projects or debating global policy issues, this is the list for you. Posting in languages other than English is welcome, although English is a language most of the audience can understand. Multilingual posts (where the poster repeats the same text in another language) are also welcome. Messages may be posted only by subscribers.
[edit] Local chapters
- WikimediaCH-l for matters relating to the Swiss chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- VereinDE-l: for matters relating to the German chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- WikimediaFR-l for matters relating to the French chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- WikimediaUK-l for matters relating to Wikimedia UK, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- WikimediaPL-l for matters relating to the Polish chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- WikimediaNL-l for matters relating to the Dutch chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- WikimediaSE-l for matters relating to the Swedish chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- WikimediaBR-l for matters relating to the Brazilian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
- VereinAT-l for matters relating to the Austrian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
[edit] Projects
- Global Wikipedia mailing list
While the general project-wide list is Wikipedia-L, it receives little to no traffic. Use wikien-l instead as a resource for Wikipedia authors, for English discussion that covers most Wikipedia's projects. If you don't want to use Wikipedia or the IRC channels for questions, or if you'd like to talk to other Wikipedians outside the wiki format, then you can sign up for Wikipedia-L. It is a list for all Wikipedia languages, but not for other Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary. Posting in languages other than English is welcome, although English is a language most of the audience can understand. As with foundation-l, multilingual posts are welcome.
There are also language-specific mailing lists for Wikipedia and the other projects. Please see the overview for a list.
[edit] Other projects
- Textbook-l (Wikibooks)
- wiktionary-l (Wiktionary)
- WiktionaryDE-l for issues concerning the German language Wiktionary.
- wikispecies-l (Wikispecies, Wikispecies)
- wikinews-l (Wikinews, Wikinews)
- wikinews-de-l (German Wikinews)
- pressemeldungen' (collection of press releases and news tips)
- commons-l (Wikimedia Commons)
- wikisource-l (discussions concerning the Wikisource project)
- wikiversity-l (Wikiversity)
- wikiquote-l (Wikiquote)
- wikimediameta-l list for Meta Wikimedia affairs
- Incubator (Incubator)
[edit] Technical issues mailing lists
- Wikitech: For discussion of technical issues with Wikimedia servers, features and development of the MediaWiki software, etc.
- Mediawiki: For other installations and users of the MediaWiki software in non-Wikimedia-related projects, including some feature and development discussion.
- Wikibugs: automated notifications of bug reports
- MediaWiki-cvs: automated notifications of CVS check-ins
- Toolserver: For announcements and discussion regarding the Toolserver, including downtime
- XMLDataDumps-Admin: Operations List about Dumps. Failures / Upgrades / Changes
- XMLDataDumps: Discussion List for Wikimedia's XML Database Dumps
[edit] Others
- announce-l for distribution of Wikizine, volunteering newsletter on Wikimedia project activities.
- Daily-article-l for an extract of the English Wikipedia's featured article of the day.
- translators-l for translation notices, particularly relating to meta and wikimediafoundation content, and other translation issues
- egyptopedia-l see Egyptopedia
- wikimania-l for discussion about Wikimania
- wiki-research-l for discussion about Wiki-related Research
HelpDesk-lnow closed.- Local Wikipedia Meetup Announcements:
- bayern@lists.wikimedia.de for Wikipedia Meetups in Bavaria (german)
For additional lists, see mail.wikipedia.org Mailing Lists.
[edit] Mailing list administrators
- Note: This list is most likely severely outdated.
The following users are currently responsible for mailing list administration. If you would like to become a mailing list admin and you feel the list you want to admin does not currently have enough admins, please contact a server admin on IRC in #wikimedia-tech.
[edit] Wikipedias
[edit] Foundation and chapters
[edit] Development
| List | Admins |
|---|---|
| MediaWiki-l | Brion Vibber, Tim Starling |
| Wikitech-l | Jeronim, Brion Vibber, Fire |
| Mediawiki-cvs | Brion Vibber |
| Wikibugs-l | Brion Vibber |
[edit] Other
[edit] IRC
Wikipedia also has a real-time chat channel. Visit IRC channels for more info.
[edit] Splitting up the Daily Digests
For Linux-Users there is a comfortable solution for splitting up the daily digest.
Put the following 3 lines into your .procmailrc and activate procmail support.
:0: * ^Subject:.*mailinglist.*Digest | formail +1 -ds >>mailinglist
[edit] Removing emails from archives
Emails should be sent to mailing lists with care, as removal of emails from archives with any degree of safety is nearly impossible.
Running bin/arch, as is commonly suggested, has the effect of renumbering all the messages, breaking all links to the archive. It's also buggy and has corrupted the list archives in the past. Because of this, our developers have made a policy of not performing any archive deletions.
[edit] Create a new list
To create a new mailing list, you have to request it on Bugzilla. The bug should be placed in the mailing list component and assigned to Cary Bass, direct link with all the information included: [2]
Things to include:
- requested name of the mailing list
- reasoning/explanation of purpose (and community consensus, if applicable)
- initial list administrator's e-mail address
After submitting the bug correctly, your list should be created within the next few days.
