Mailing lists/overview

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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 found @ http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo

Contents 1 Wikimedia Foundation 1.1 Wikimedia chapters 2 Project mailing lists 2.1 Local Wikipedia mailing lists 2.2 Local Wiktionary mailing lists 2.3 Local Wikibooks mailing lists 2.4 Local Wikinews mailing lists 3 Related mailing lists 4 Defunct 5 See also

[edit] Wikimedia Foundation

• foundation-l (archive) - mailing list for the Wikimedia Foundation
• wikitech-l (archive) - software development and Wikimedia maintenance
• wikitext-l (archive) - markup and parsers discussions
• mediawiki-api (archive) - announcement & discussion list for MediaWiki API
• mediawiki-l (archive) - announcement & help list for people using the software to run other wikis
• mediawiki-i18n (archive) - MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup
• mediawiki-announce (archive) - update and security announcements only (low-traffic)
• mediawiki-cvs (archive) - automated notifications of Subversion commits
• wikibugs-l - automated notifications of bug reports
• wikibots-l (archive) - discussion list for bot-editor users on Wikimedia sites
• wiki-research-l (archive) - 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
• translators-l (archive) - a list for discussing and announcing translations across the Wikimedia projects
• wikimania-l (archive) for announcements and discussion about the Wikimania conference
• wikiquality-l (archive) discussions regarding the design and implementation of quality-related technology for Wikimedia projects, as well as quality policies and initiatives.
• accounts-enwiki-l used on English Wikipedia to create accounts for new users.
• oversight-l - Private mailing list for Oversight users.
• stewards-l - Private mailing list for Stewards.
• checkuser-l - Private mailing list for CheckUser users.

[edit] Wikimedia chapters

• WikimediaAU-l (archive) - for matters relating to the planned Australian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• Wikimedia-ca (archive) - for matters relating to the planned Canadian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaCH-l (archive) for matters relating to the Swiss chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
• WikimediaCZ-l (archive) for matters relating to the Czech chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation.
• VereinAT-l (archive) - for matters relating to the planned Austrian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• VereinDE-l (archive) - for matters relating to the German chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaFR-l (archive) - for matters relating to the French chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaNL-l (archive) - for matters relating to the Dutch chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaPL-l (archive) - for matters relating to the Polish chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaRO-l (archive) - for matters relating to the proposed Romanian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaSE-l (archive) - for matters relating to the Swedish chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaSR-l (archive) - for matters relating to the Serbian chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• WikimediaUK-l (archive) - for matters relating to the UK chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation
• Wikimedia-TW (archive) - for matters relating to the TW chapter, but not concerning the wider Foundation

[edit] Project mailing lists

• wikipedia-l (archive) - for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikipedia (see below for local mailing lists)
• wikisource-l (archive) - for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikisource
• textbook-l (archive) - for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikibooks (see below for local mailing lists)
• wiktionary-l (archive) - for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wiktionary (see below for local mailing lists)
• wikinews-l (archive) - 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) - for the Wikimedia Commons-related discussion
• wikiquote-l (archive) - for Wikiquote-related discussion
• Wikimediameta-l - list for issues specific for the Meta-Wiki (the wiki where you are now)

[edit] Local Wikipedia mailing lists

• wikials-l (Alemannisch)
• wikiar-l (العربية)
• wikica-l (Català)
• wikida-l (Dansk)
• wikide-l (Deutsch)
• wikien-l (English)
  • daily-article-l (archive) - sends the current article featured on the Main Page to all subscribers
• wikieo-l (Esperanto)
• wikies-l (Español)
• wikifa-l (فارسی)
• wikifi-l (Suomi)
• wikifr-l (francophone)
• wikihi-l (हिन्दी)
• wikihu-l (Magyar)
• wikiia-l (Interlingua)
• wikiis-l (Íslensk)
• wikiit-l (Italiano)
• wikija-l (日本語)
• wikimk-l (Македонски)
• wikinl-l (Nederlands)
• wikino-l (Norsk)
• wikipl-l (Polski)
• wikipt (Português)
• wikiru-l (Русский)
• wikisa-l (Sanskrit)
• wikiskan-l (new all-Scandinavian list)
• wikisv-l (Svensk)
• wikita-l (Tamil)
• wikite-l (Telugu)
• wikite-l (Türkçe)
• wikivi-l (Tiếng Việt)
• wikizh-l (中文)

[edit] Local Wiktionary mailing lists

• WiktionaryDE-l (Deutsch)
• WiktionaryPT-l (Português)

[edit] Local Wikibooks mailing lists

• WikibooksDE-l (Deutsch)

[edit] Local Wikinews mailing lists

• Wikinews-DE-l (archive)

[edit] Related mailing lists

• Pywikipedia-l - for discussion about the python mediawiki bot framework

• toolserver-l - for announcements and discussion about and regarding the toolserver

[edit] Defunct

• intlwiki-l (archive) - 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)
• wikilegal-l (archive) - legal & licensing issues, deprecated by foundation-l and the individual project mailing lists

[edit] See also

There are other ways of communicating with the community besides mailing lists. Some of them include:

• Wikimedia Meta-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