Wikipedia:Mailing lists

Wikipedia has a number of important mailing lists for general users and administrators. 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.

The general project-wide list is Wikipedia-L. It's a resource for Wikipedia authors. If you don't want to use Wikipedia (or Wikipedia:meta-Wikipedia) for questions, or if you'd like to talk to other Wikipedians outside the wiki format, then you can sign up for Wikipedia-L.

• Wikipedia-L sign-up page
• Wikipedia-L archive
• Wikipedia-L via NNTP

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!

• WikiEN-L sign-up page
• WikiEN-L archive
• WikiEN-L via NNTP

There is also a general mailing list for interlanguage issue discussions and cooperation: Intlwiki-L. Use this list for things that specifically concern cross-language issues, or for discussing the setting up of a new language.

• Intlwiki-L sign-up page
• Intlwiki-L archive
• Intlwiki-L via NNTP

There are also language-specific mailing lists for Wikipedia in Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, and Swedish.

And, there's a mailing list for technical discussions regarding development of the Wikipedia software: Wikitech-L.

• Wikitech-L sign-up page
• Wikitech-L archive
• Wikitech-L via NNTP

New textbook development page for the soon-to-appear Wiki Textbook subdomain.

• Textbook-1 sign-up page
• Textbook-1 archive

Wikipedia also has a real-time chat channel. Visit Wikipedia IRC channel for more info.

Related pages

• Announcements
• IRC chat
• Village pump
• Instant Message a wikipedian