Mailing lists/Overview
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These are the mailing lists hosted by Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization in the state of California which operates Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, and Wikiversity, as well as many Wikimedia Chapter wikis, and a few other MediaWiki-based wikis.
A mailing list is like a shared email address: messages sent to that address are distributed to all members ("subscribers") of the list.
Except for lists marked "private", archives are available for online reading by anyone; posting to a list generally requires subscribing to it. The Mailman list overview page can be found at lists.wikimedia.org. Some lists can be searched and read on Gmane as web-based threads or blogs, or with an RSS reader or NNTP newsreader; see the links below or, on Gmane, gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia and gmane.org.wikimedia.
See the main Mailing lists page for more information on Wikimedia lists.
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Wikimedia[edit]
Wikimedia Foundation[edit]
Lists relating to the Wikimedia Foundation.
- wikimedia-l (archive, gmane) – general mailing list, see wikimedia-l (formerly foundation-l)
- WikimediaAnnounce-l (archive, gmane) – general Wikimedia announcements low traffic list; forwards and replies-to wikimedia-l (see Mailing lists/Wikimedia Announce)
- Advisory (private) - list for the advisors on the Wikimedia Advisory Board, and Trustees
Interest group lists[edit]
Lists for various topics.
- languages (archive) – a list for all languages-related topics
- translators-l (archive, gmane) – a list for discussing and announcing translations across the Wikimedia projects
- Cultural Partners-l (archive) – GLAM & Cultural sector outreach (currently private)
- GLAM (archive) – GLAM
- GLAM-US (archive) – GLAM in the United States of America
- WikiLovesMonuments (archive, gmane) – Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
- Education (archive, gmane) – Wikimedia and Education
- Education-SA (archive) — Education Program in Saudi Arabia (members only)
- wiki-research-l (archive, gmane) – low volume list for people who are actively engaged in research on the Wikimedia projects
- gendergap (archive, gmane) – discussing the gender gap on Wikimedia projects
- Gendergap-de (archive) - German Gendergap list
Museum-l– Wikimedia and Museums, for museum professionals (never used. currently private)
- Libraries (archive, gmane) – Wikimedia and Libraries, for library professionals, all things Wikimedian and librarian, and the inevitable love affair between the two
- Program Evaluation and Design (archive) - Announcement list for people interested in program evaluation and design
- Multimedia (archive, gmane) - a list for discussing the contribution, curation, discovery and publishing of multimedia content to Wikimedia projects
- Wikipedia-Library - a list for coordination of the global library research and access project (see The Wikipedia Library)
- Cochrane-Announce (archive, gmane) - an announcement-only list for the Wikipedia-Cochrane Collaboration initiative
- Wikipedia Humanities (archive, gmane) - mailing list for coordination of humanities-based outreach in the Wikipedia community
- Wikimaps (archive, gmane) - mailing list for the Wikimaps project
- Wikiproject Health in Portuguese, (archive, gmane) - mailing list for the Wikiproject Health in Portuguese.
Internal, governance and committee lists[edit]
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).
- stewards-l (archive) – private mailing list for Stewards.
- checkuser-l – private mailing list for CheckUser users.
- functionaries-announce (archive) – private announce only list for Wikimedia Foundation announcements to groups of trusted users for important changes to their tools or policies. List membership rebuilt before each mailing.
- rcom-l (archive) – Research Committee.
- fundraiser (archive) – fundraising discussions, open-subscription and public successor of the now closed fundraising list (which was private, see Mailing lists/Fundraising)
- treasurers (archive) – mainly for treasurers and auditors of Wikimedia organizations, but also for interested individuals; public archives.
- langcom – Language committee (open subscription, replaces the private langcom-l list)
- board-l – internal WMF board list, not intended for outside email. To contact the board, use the Wikimedia Foundation Board noticeboard
- wmfcc-l – Communications committee (comcom).
- gac – internal list for the Project and Event Grants Grant Advisory Committee (GAC).
Wikimania[edit]
- wikimania-l (archive, gmane) – for announcements and discussion about the Wikimania conference
- Wikimania 2010 (archive, gmane) (Polish)
- wikimania-com (archive, gmane) – Wikimania steering committee
Wikimedia chapters[edit]
Lists for Wikimedia chapters.
Chapters-reports (archive, gmane) – announcement mailing list for all Wikimedia chapters(now merged into Wikimedia Announcements)- Chapters-l (archive) – private mailing list for Chapters
- Iberocoop list – for discussion of Iberocoop activities (currently private)
- WikimediaAU-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the Australian chapter
- Wikimediabr-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the planned Brazilian chapter
- Wikimedia-ca (archive, gmane) – 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, gmane) – for matters relating to the Austrian chapter
- VereinDE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the German chapter
- Wikimediaindia-l (archive, gmane) – 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
- Wikimedia-PH (archive) – for matters relating to the Philippine 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, gmane) – for matters relating to the proposed Romanian chapter
- Wikimedia-RU (archive, old archive) – for matters relating to the Russian chapter
- WikimediaSE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the Swedish chapter
- Wikimedia-SK (archive) – for matters relating to the Slovakia chapter-to-be
- Wikimedia-SK-oznamy (archive) – announcements list for Slovakia chapter-to-be
- 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 Ukrainian chapter
- Wikimedia-US-MW (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the proposed Midwest US chapter and for organizing activities in the Midwest region of the US
- WikimediaUK-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the UK chapter
- WikimediaUK schools list – (gmane)
- Wikimedia Uruguay (archive) – for matters relating to the Uruguayan chappter (members only)
- Wikimedia-TW (archive) – for matters relating to the TW chapter
- WikimediaZA (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the proposed South African chapter
- Wikimedia_NYC (archive, gmane) – New York City area Wikimedians
Regional mailing lists[edit]
Lists for established meetup groups in particular locations.
- Wikimedia-Boston (archive, gmane) – Boston area Wikimedians – meetup group
- Wikimedia-Cascadia (archive, gmane) – Cascadia region Wikimedians discussion list
- Wikimedia-KH (archive, gmane) – Wikimedia Cambodia/ Khmer Wikipedia mailing list – meetup group
- Wikimedia-SF (archive, gmane) – San Francisco Bay area Wikimedians – meetup group
- WikimediaIE (archive, gmane) – Ireland Wikimedians
- Wikimedia-BD (archive, gmane) – Bangladeshi Wikimedians
- wikimedia-in-wb (archive, gmane) – Wikimedians in West Bengal (India)
- Wikimedia-US-CO (archive, gmane) – Wikimedians in Colorado, USA
- WikimediaCR – Wikimedians in Costa Rica
- African-Wikimedians (archive, gmane) — Wikimedians in Africa
Project mailing lists[edit]
Sorted by project name.
- textbook-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikibooks (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikidata-l (archive, gmane) – a mailing list for discussing Wikidata
- commons-l (archive, gmane) – for the Wikimedia Commons-related discussion
- Commons-poty (archive, gmane) – Picture of the day feature on Commons
- incubator (archive, gmane) – list for Wikimedia Incubator-related discussion
- Wikimediameta-l (archive, gmane) – list for issues specific for the Meta-Wiki (the wiki where you are now)
- wikinews-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikinews (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikipedia-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikipedia (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikiquote-l (archive, gmane) – for Wikiquote-related discussion
- wikisource-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikisource
- wikispecies-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikispecies
- wikiversity-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikiversity
- wiktionary-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wiktionary (see below for local mailing lists)
- wikivoyage-l (archive) – for Wikivoyage-related discussion
Local Wikipedia mailing lists[edit]
- wikials-l (archive, gmane) (Alemannisch)
- wikiar-l (archive, gmane) (العربية)
- wikipedia-bn (archive, gmane) (বাংলা)
- wikimedia-in-wb (archive, gmane) (বাংলা)
- wikica-l (archive, gmane) (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, gmane) – English Wikipedia Ambassadors
- wikieo-l (archive, gmane) (Esperanto)
- wikies-l (archive, gmane) (español)
- wikieu-l (archive, gmane) (español)
- wikifa-l (archive, gmane) (فارسی)
- wikifi-l (archive, gmane) (suomi)
- wikifr-l (archive, gmane) (français)
- wikipedia-gu (archive) (ગુજરાતી)
- wikihe-l (archive, gmane) (עברית)
- wikihi-l (archive, gmane) (हिन्दी)
- wikihu-l (archive, gmane) (magyar)
- wikiia-l (archive, gmane) (interlingua)
- wikiid-l (archive, gmane) (Bahasa Indonesia)
- wikiis-l (archive, gmane) (íslenska)
- wikiit-l (archive, gmane) (italiano)
- wikiit-admins-l (private archive) (italiano)
- wikikn-l (archive, gmane) (ಕನ್ನಡ)
- wikilb-l (archive, gmane) (Lëtzebuergesch)
- wikija-l (archive, gmane) (日本語)
- wikiko-l (archive, gmane) (한국어)
- wikimk-l (archive, gmane) (македонски)
- wikiml-l (archive, gmane) (മലയാളം)
- wikinl-l (archive, gmane) (Nederlands)
- wikinn-l (archive, gmane) (norsk nynorsk)
- wikino-l (archive, gmane) (norsk bokmål)
- wikipl-l (archive, gmane) (polski)
- wikipt (archive, gmane) (português)
- wikiro-l (archive, gmane) (română)
- wikiru-l (archive, gmane) (русский)
- wikisa-l (archive, gmane) (संस्कृतम्)
- wikisk-l (archive, gmane) (slovenčina)
- wikiskan-l (archive, gmane) (new all-Scandinavian list)
- wikisv-l (archive, gmane) (svenska)
- wikita-l (archive, gmane) (தமிழ்)
- wikite-l (archive, gmane) (తెలుగు)
- wikitr-l (archive, gmane) (Türkçe)
- wikiuk-l (archive, gmane) (українська)
- wikivi-l (archive, gmane) (Tiếng Việt)
- wikizh-l (archive, gmane) (中文)
- wikipedia-or (archive, gmane) (ଓଡ଼ିଆ)
Local Wiktionary mailing lists[edit]
- WiktionaryDE-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
- WiktionaryPT-l (archive, gmane) (Português)
Local Wikibooks mailing lists[edit]
- WikibooksDE-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
Local and otherwise Wikinews mailing lists[edit]
- Wikinews-DE-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
- Wikinews-accreditation (archive) – verifying accreditation requests
- Wikinews-hotline (archive, gmane) – voicemails submitted to the Wikinews hotline
- Wikinews-fa (archive, gmane) (فارسی)
- Wikinews-zh (archive) (中文)
Local Wikiversity mailing lists[edit]
- Wikiversityde-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
MediaWiki and technical[edit]
Lists related to software and technical matters.
MediaWiki[edit]
General MediaWiki discussion, strictly suitable (also) for a general, non-Wikimedia-only audience.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| mediawiki-l | For administrators and users of the MediaWiki software in non-Wikimedia-related projects, including some feature and development discussion. If you are having difficulty with your own installation of MediaWiki, then this is the place to ask for help. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-announce | A low traffic list for announcements about new MediaWiki releases and security updates. All messages to this list also go to mediawiki-l, so you don't need to be on both. Note: this list is in "emergency moderation". Only messages from accepted addresses don't get immediately discarded, and any message has to be manually approved by a list admin or moderator (Tim Starling, Reedy or Csteipp). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-i18n | Discussion and notifications regarding MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup. Not to be confused with the private localisation-team. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-api | Discussion related to the MediaWiki API and its on-going development. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-api-announce | A low-traffic list for announcements about the API, such as breaking changes and new MediaWiki releases. All messages to this list also go to mediawiki-api, so you don't need to be on both. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikitext-l | This list is for long-term discussion of MediaWiki's syntax ("wikitext"), its current parser, improvements, and work on a possible future parser. Specific, fixable problems with the current parser should go to wikitech-l instead. Wikitext-l is also the main venue where we discuss the new MediaWiki visual editor. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikidata-tech | Discussion regarding the development of Wikidata |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikifarm | Discussion for managers of Wiki Farms |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Code and bugs[edit]
Of interest mainly for developers following the code closely.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| wikibugs-l | Automated notifications of bug reports. Note that follow-ups should go into Bugzilla, or sent directly to the reporter and/or to wikitech-l. They should not be sent to wikibugs-l. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • gmane | |
| mediawiki-commits | Automated notifications of Git/Gerrit commits. Developers and other interested users may wish to subscribe to keep abreast of the latest whizz-bang changes that somebody forgot to mention on wikitech-l. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • gmane | |
| wikidata-bugs | Automated notifications of bug reports. Note that follow-ups should go into Bugzilla, or sent directly to the reporter and/or to wikidata-l. They should not be sent to wikidata-bugs. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| wikimedia-commits | This list was merged to mediawiki-commits. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • not on Gmane? | |
| mediawiki-codereview | All CodeReview comments were sent to this list (only for the SVN repository; no replacement available with Git). Follow-ups went into CodeReview or were sent to to wikitech-l. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • (not archived) • gmane | |
| qa-alerts | Automatic notifications of Quality Assurance alerts (browser tests) sent by Jenkins |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Local[edit]
MediaWiki discussions local to a specific area or userbase.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| mediawiki-distributors | A very low volume list directly related to the issues of those who package and distribute MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-enterprise | For discussion related to the enterprise use of MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| iberotec | A list about MediaWiki, pywikibot and other technical things, in iberocoop languages (Portugues, Spanish, Italian). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mediawiki-india | A list for developers and users of MediaWiki from India. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| mediawiki-fr | Liste de discussion francophone sur MediaWiki / MediaWiki french-speaking mailinglist |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| mediawiki-sv | Swedish language discussions about the MediaWiki software (closed). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Related software, tools and infrastructure[edit]
Tools to help use and development of all MediaWiki and MediaWiki sites, or of Wikimedia projects by anyone including researchers etc.
Pywikibot[edit]
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| pywikipedia-announce | for important Python MediaWiki bot announcements (important bugfixes, updates and notes). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| pywikipedia-l | Python MediaWiki bot discussion (user and developer) about the Pywikibot framework. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| pywikipedia-bugs | Bugs filed against Pywikibot (Bugzilla). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| pywikibot-commits | Commits to the Pywikibot Git repository. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Toolserver[edit]
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| toolserver-announce | Important announcements about and regarding the toolserver |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| toolserver-l | For discussion about and regarding the toolserver |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Other[edit]
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| huggle | Discussion of Huggle anti-vandalism tool (in English). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| labs-l | Discussing Wikimedia Labs testing, prototyping, & development environment. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| xmldatadumps-l | Discussion of providing and downloading Wikimedia data, see Data dumps for on-wiki documentation. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
General development and technical discussion[edit]
For all Wikimedians: the tech ambassadors list for discussion and announcements of upcoming changes and features:
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| wikitech-l | For discussion of technical issues with Wikimedia servers, features and development of the MediaWiki software, etc. This is not a forum for user help (see mediawiki-l, above). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikitech-announce | Wikimedia technology platform and MediaWiki development and maintenance announcements, reports and updates (low-traffic). |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikibots-l | Discussion and self-help among bots users. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Interest areas[edit]
Specific technical areas of work on MediaWiki in general and Wikimedia projects specifically.
| List | Description |
|---|---|
| analytics | A mailing list for the Analytics Team at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| design | Discussion of Wikimedia design: information architecture, visual design, style, etc. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| ee | Discussion of initiatives that support new users and experienced editors on Wikipedia and MediaWiki projects ("Editor engagement"). Not to be confused with the private e2. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • not on Gmane? | |
| maps-l | Discussion about the integration of open maps (including from OpenStreetMap) with MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| MetaVid-l | Discussion about MetaVidWiki and the integration of MetaVid with MediaWiki. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| mobile-l | A list for announcing and discussing the Wikimedia mobile projects. This includes mobile web, apps, and tablets. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| offline-l | This list is a place where technologists and practitioners meet to discuss the best approaches for using – as readers or as participants – MediaWiki-powered sites without Internet connectivity. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| teampractices | A mailing list to discuss team practices employed in Wikimedia organizations, with focus on software engineering practices and methods such as agile development. Not to be confused with the private Engineering general discussion list for all staffers and contractors of that WMF department. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane | |
| wikivideo-l | Discussion about video on Wikimedia projects. Closed in July 2013 - See the new Multimedia list, above. |
| Homepage/sign-up • Subscriber login • Archives • gmane |
Defunct[edit]
- 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 wikimedia-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:
- wiki-offline-reader-l (archive) – list for the co-ordination of work on a free offline MediaWiki reader
- wikiquality-l (archive, gmane) – discussions regarding the design and implementation of quality-related technology for Wikimedia projects, as well as quality policies and initiatives
- wikix-l (archive, gmane) – planning for Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (which has already happened)
- pywikipedia-svn (archive, gmane) – Notification about Pywikibot commits on SVN. Closed after move to Git. New list is pywikibot-commits
See also[edit]
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
