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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:

Project:Support desk

Ask any questions related to non-Wikimedia MediaWiki installations.

meta:Tech

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

StackExchange

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

MediaWiki subreddit

Reddit's MediaWiki group. (unofficial)

Chat

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

MediaWiki Discord server

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

Hackathon Telegram group

Ask Hackathon related questions in Telegram @wmhack group. Find out more.

IRC channels

Ask technical questions about MediaWiki in the #mediawiki ^connect channel on libera.chat.
For MediaWiki software development questions, ask in #wikimedia-dev ^connect.
For technical and software development questions about Wikimedia websites, ask in #wikimedia-tech ^connect.

Find out more.

Outreach Programs Zulip chat

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

There are more Telegram chats available.

Mailing lists

Post on mailing lists:

mediawiki-l

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

wikitech-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 . Most team pages provide contact information. Please refrain from contacting individuals unless no team is listed.

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

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

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

MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group

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

MediaWiki Farmers user group

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

Wikimedia user groups

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

Special Interest Groups

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

Social Media

Follow our accounts:

@[email protected] on Mastodon

News from MediaWiki community members (details).

@MediaWiki on X (formerly Twitter)

News from the MediaWiki project.

MediaWiki on Facebook

News from the MediaWiki project.

@watchmediawiki on YouTube

Videos and event streams related to MediaWiki and Wikimedia technology.

Blogs

Read stories:

Diff

The Diff blog shares stories from Wikimedia's community, including content about Wikimedia technology and the technical community.

Blogs on Phabricator

Read technical blogs hosted on Wikimedia Phabricator .

Planet Wikimedia

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

Diff

Submit your technical story to Diff, the Wikimedia Blog.

Wikimedia Technical Talks

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

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