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Wikipedia has a number of mailing lists for discussions related to particular projects. Anyone who wants can post messages to a mailing
list, but if you want to post something you should sign up for the appropriate list first. Messages from people who are not
subscribed to a list must be approved by a list administrator (this is to weed out spam sent to the list), which may result in your message being delayed or accidentally discarded.
In posting to the mailing lists, the general principles of Wikiquette and avoiding personal attacks apply the same as on Wikipedia itself. This is particularly
important when writing the subject heading of a message, because the heading is likely to be repeated by everyone who
participates in that discussion thread.
All mailing lists are managed by Fire. If you want to create a new mailing list or have any related questions, please email Fire or ask on his user talk page.
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. Mailing list posts are indexed by
search engines such as Google. Offsite archives of Wikipedia's mailing lists can be
found at Gmane [1] and MARC
[2] .
Wikimedia Foundation mailing list
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia and its sister projects,
has its own mailing list. 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.
Global Wikipedia mailing list
The general project-wide list is Wikipedia-L . It's a resource for Wikipedia
authors. If you don't want to use Wikipedia or the Wikipedia: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.
English-only mailing list
Since Wikipedia-L developed into an extremely high traffic list, a separate mailing list for the English Wikipedia was
created. For discussion of issues concerning the English wikipedia only, please sign up for WikiEN-L and keep
Wikipedia-L for general policy discussions!
Language-specific mailing lists
There are also language-specific mailing lists for Wikipedia in Chinese , Danish , Dutch , Esperanto , Spanish , Finnish , French , German , Italian , Japanese , Polish , Portuguese , Swedish and Interlingua .
Technical issues mailing list
Wikitech
And, there's a mailing list for technical discussions regarding development of the Wikipedia software: Wikitech-L.
Mediawiki
Wikibooks mailing list
Mailing list for the Wikibooks project.
Wiktionary mailing list
Mailing list for the Wiktionary
project.
IRC
Wikipedia also has a real-time chat channel. Visit Wikipedia IRC channels for more info.
Related pages
- Announcements
- Village pump
- Instant Message a
wikipedian
Splitting up the Daily Digests
For Linux-Users there is a comfortable solution for splitting up the daily digest.
Put following into your .procmailrc and activate procmail support. :0:
* ^Subject:.*mailinglist.*Digest
| formail +1 -ds >>mailinglist
gmane links
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