Get in contact with other MediaWiki users and developers, or follow
Wikimedia and MediaWiki
related news and stories.
Forums
Get help both with using MediaWiki and setting up MediaWiki:
Ask any questions related to non-Wikimedia MediaWiki installations.
Get help as a Wikimedia community member on technical questions related to your Wikimedia wiki.
MediaWiki users forum.
(unofficial)
Posts on Stackexchange.com tagged with #mediawiki.
(unofficial)
Reddit's MediaWiki group.
(unofficial)
Chat
Find help in real time on chat servers.
They are sorted by their activity.
Discuss wiki installation, operation, skinning, custom developments.
(unofficial)
Find out more.
There are more
Telegram
chats available.
Mailing lists
Ask for help with using or setting up MediaWiki on the high-traffic list
mediawiki-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
Contact software maintainers
A list of maintainers of Wikimedia software is available at
Developers/Maintainers
.
You can leave a note on their talk page or send them an email to contact them.
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
is a low-traffic list for announcements of new MediaWiki releases and security updates (all messages also go to
mediawiki-l
).
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
User Groups
are open groups organized by themes and areas of interest.
Social Media
News from MediaWiki community members (
details
).
News from the MediaWiki project.
News from the MediaWiki project.
News from the Wikimedia technical movement.
Videos and event streams related to MediaWiki and Wikimedia technology.
Blogs
The
Wikimedia Tech Blog
shares stories from Wikimedia's technical community across and beyond Wikimedia technology.
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.
Wikimedia Technical Talks
Give a
Technical Talk
video presentation.
(currently on pause)