MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group/Communication

This page lists the MediaWiki Stakeholder's Group channels of communication and their intended uses.

Wikis

• MediaWiki.org
• EnterpriseMediaWiki - Showcase enterprise MediaWiki use (temporarily shutdown)
• MediaWiki Stakeholders Group (MWStake) - Has calendar dates for monthly meetings

Instant Messaging

• Matrix (formerly Riot) Community
  • general MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group discussion (Matrix)
  • MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group events (Matrix)
  • use and development of extensions by MediaWiki stakeholders (Matrix)
    • showcase wiki (Matrix)
    • NASA's meza installer (Matrix)
    • creating a unified MediaWiki installer (Matrix)
  • Semantic MediaWiki discussion (Matrix)
  • non-MediaWiki-related discussion (Matrix)
  • general MediaWiki-related discussion (Matrix) which bridges to #mediawiki ^connect (IRC)
• Slack SMW - Not used anymore, migrated to Riot
• #mediawiki ^connect on Libera Chat - Also can connect via Riot as shown above

Email mailing lists

• MediaWiki-l - Help/support with running/configuring MediaWiki. It is intended for people who are running wikis with the MediaWiki software and for announcements of new versions, bug fixes, and security issues.
• Wikitech-l - Discussing the technical organization of the Wikimedia projects.
• Mediawiki-enterprise - MediaWiki for enterprise.
• Semantic MediaWiki Users - Support mailing list for users and administrators of Semantic MediaWiki

Forums

• Discourse - Ask for help, check through other questions and answers
• QualityBox Discourse - For the QualityBox distribution of MediaWiki from eQuality Tech
• Support desk
• StackOverflow
• StackExchange
• MediaWiki Users
• Reddit (MediaWiki)
• Reddit (Wiki)

Software Collaboration and Bug tracking

• Phabricator

Other

• Etherpad - Used to live record meetings and collaborate