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These are the mailing lists of the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization in the state of California which operates Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikiquote, Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons, Wikispecies, Wikinews, and Wikiversity, as well as many Wikimedia Chapter wikis, and a few other MediaWiki-based wikis.

A mailing list is like a shared email address: messages sent to that address are distributed to all members ("subscribers") of the list.

Except for lists marked "private", archives are available for online reading by anyone; posting to a list generally requires subscribing to it. The Mailman list overview page can be found at lists.wikimedia.org. Some lists can be searched and read on Gmane as web-based threads or blogs, or with an RSS reader or NNTP newsreader; see the links below or, on Gmane, gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia and gmane.org.wikimedia.

See the main Mailing lists page for more information on Wikimedia lists.

Wikimedia

Wikimedia Foundation

Lists relating to the Wikimedia Foundation

• wikimedia-l (archive, gmane) – mailing list for the Wikimedia Foundation, see wikimedia-l
• WikimediaAnnounce-l (archive, gmane) – General Wikimedia announcements low traffic list; forwards and replies-to wikimedia-l (see Mailing lists/Wikimedia Announce)

Interest group lists

Lists for various topics

• translators-l (archive, gmane) – a list for discussing and announcing translations across the Wikimedia projects
• Cultural Partners-l – GLAM & Cultural sector outreach (currently private)
• WikiLovesMonuments (archive) – Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
  • wlm-es (archive) – Spanish list
• Education (archive) – Wikimedia and Education
• wiki-research-l (archive, gmane) – low volume list for people who are actively engaged in research on the Wikipedia project
• offline-l (archive) – list for the co-ordination of work on a free offline Wikipedia options
• mobile-l (archive) – a list for announcing and discussing work on the wikipedia mobile server and all of its supported mobile platforms.
• wikiquality-l (archive) – discussions regarding the design and implementation of quality-related technology for Wikimedia projects, as well as quality policies and initiatives.
• wikix-l (archive) – planning for Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (which has already happened)
• gendergap (archives) – discussing the gender gap on Wikimedia projects
• Museum-l – Wikipedia and Museums, for museum professionals (currently private)
• Libraries (archives) – Wikipedia and Libraries, for library professionals, all things Wikipedian and librarian, and the inevitable love affair between the two.

Internal, governance and committee lists

These lists have to do with specific committees or internal operations, and often require approval to join

• internal-l – Internal list for Wikimedia Foundation board, Legal officers, & boards of local chapters (see instructions for chapters).
• oversight-l (archive) – Private mailing list for Oversight users.
• stewards-l (archive) – Private mailing list for Stewards.
• checkuser-l (archive) – Private mailing list for CheckUser users.
• rcom-l (archive) – Research Committee.
• fundraising – Fundraising discussions, see Mailing lists/Fundraising. (currently private)
• treasurers (archive) – Mainly for treasurers and auditors of Wikimedia organizations, but also for interested individuals; public archives.
• langcom-l – Language committee. (currently private)

  langcom-observers – language committee observers. (currently private)

Wikimania

• wikimania-l (archive, gmane) – for announcements and discussion about the Wikimania conference
  • Wikimania 2010 (archive, gmane) (Polish)

Wikimedia chapters

Lists for Wikimedia chapters

• Chapters-reports (archive) – announcement mailing list for all Wikimedia chapters (now merged into Wikimedia Announcements)
• Chaters-l (archive) – private mailing list for Chapters.
• Iberocoop list - for discussion of Iberocoop activities (currently private)
• WikimediaAU-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Australian chapter
• Wikimediabr-l (archive) – for matters relating to the planned Brazilian chapter
• Wikimedia-ca (archive) – for matters relating to the planned Canadian chapter
• WikimediaCH-l (archive, gmane) for matters relating to the Swiss chapter.
• WikimediaCZ-l (archive) for matters relating to the Czech chapter.
• VereinAT-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Austrian chapter
• VereinDE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the German chapter
• Wikimediaindia-l (archive) - for matters relating to the Indian chapter
• WikimediaFR-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the French chapter
• WikimediaNL-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Dutch chapter
• WikimediaPL-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Polish chapter
• WikimediaPT-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the PT chapter
• WikimediaRO-l (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Romanian chapter
• WikimediaRU-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Russian chapter
• WikimediaSE-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the Swedish chapter
• WikimediaSR-l (archive) – for matters relating to the Serbian chapter
• WikimediaRS-info (archive) – Wikimedia Serbia Info (previously WikimediaSCG-INFO, now superseded)
• WikimediaUA (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Ukrainian chapter
• Wikimedia-US-MW (archive) – for matters relating to the proposed Midwest US chapter and for organizing activities in the Midwest region of the US
• WikimediaUK-l (archive, gmane) – for matters relating to the UK chapter
  • WikimediaUK schools list – (gmane)
• Wikimedia-TW (archive) – for matters relating to the TW chapter
• WikimediaZA (archive) - for matters relating to the proposed South African chapter
• Wikimedia_NYC (archive) – New York City area Wikimedians

Regional mailing lists

Lists for established meetup groups in particular locations.

• Wikimedia-Boston (archive) – Boston area Wikimedians -- meetup group
• Wikimedia-KH (archive) – Wikimedia Cambodia/ Khmer Wikipedia mailing list -- meetup group
• Wikimedia-SF (archive) – San Francisco Bay area Wikimedians -- meetup group
• WikimediaIE (archive) – Ireland Wikimedians
• Wikimedia-BD (archive) – Bangladeshi Wikimedians

Mediawiki and technical

Lists related to software and technical matters

General development & technical discussion

• wikitech-l (archive, gmane) – Wikimedia technology platform development and maintenance
• wikitech-announce (archive, gmane) – Wikimedia technology platform and MediaWiki development and maintenance announcements, reports and updates (low-traffic)
• wikibugs-l (gmane archive) – automated notifications of bug reports
• wikibots-l (archive) – discussion list for bot-editor users on Wikimedia sites
• design (archive) – discussion of visual and information design in Wikimedia software

MediaWiki

• mediawiki-l (archive, gmane) – General MediaWiki software development and help list
• mediawiki-announce (archive, gmane) – update and security announcements only (low-traffic)
• mediawiki-api (archive, gmane) – announcement & discussion list for MediaWiki API
• mediawiki-codereview (gmane) – MediaWiki CodeReview Comments
• mediawiki-cvs (gmane) – automated notifications of Subversion commits
• mediawiki-enterprise (archive, gmane)
• mediawiki-i18n (archive, gmane) – MediaWiki internationalisation and language setup
• mediawiki-sv (archive) – Swedish language discussions about the MediaWiki software (closed).
• wikitext-l (archive, gmane) – markup and parsers discussions
• SemanticMediaWiki (archive, gmane)
• SemanticMediaWiki users (archive, gmane)

pywikipedia

• pywikipedia-announce (archive) – for important python mediawiki bot announcements (important bugfixes, updates and notes)
• pywikipedia-l (archive, gmane) – for discussion (user and developer) about the pywikipediabot framework (messages from pywikipedia-announce are sent here, too)
• pywikipedia-svn (archive, gmane) – pywikipediabot SVN (version management) updates
• pywikipedia-bugs (archive) – pywikipediabot bug tracker announcement (sourceforge.net)

Related software, tools, and infrastructure

• toolserver-announce (archive) – important announcements about and regarding the toolserver
• toolserver-l (archive, gmane) – for discussion about and regarding the toolserver
• wikidata-l (archive) – discussion of Wikidata
• maps-l (archive, gmane) – Integration of OpenStreetMap and other free maps, coordinates and geographic data
• huggle (archive) – Support and discussions about Huggle (in English)
• analytics (archive) – discussion of statistics, metrics, and analytics for Wikimedia sites
• labs-l (archive) – discussion of Wikimedia Labs testing, prototyping, & development environment
• xmldatadumps-l (archive – discussion of providing and downloading Wikimedia data
• wikivideo-l (archive) – discussion of video in Wikimedia projects

Project mailing lists

• wikipedia-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikipedia (see below for local mailing lists)
• wikisource-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikisource
• textbook-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikibooks (see below for local mailing lists)
• wiktionary-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wiktionary (see below for local mailing lists)
• wikinews-l (archive, gmane) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikinews (see below for local mailing lists)
• wikiversity-l (archive) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikiversity
• wikispecies-l (archive) – for global issues, relating to all language versions of Wikispecies
• commons-l (archive, gmane) – for the Wikimedia Commons-related discussion
  • Commons-poty (archive, gmane) – Picture of the day feature on Commons
• wikiquote-l (archive) – for Wikiquote-related discussion
• incubator (archive) – list for Wikimedia Incubator-related discussion
• Wikimediameta-l (archive, gmane) – list for issues specific for the Meta-Wiki (the wiki where you are now)

Local Wikipedia mailing lists

• wikials-l (archive) (Alemannisch)
• wikiar-l (archive, gmane) (العربية)
• wikica-l (archive) (català)
• wikida-l (archive, gmane) (dansk)
• wikide-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)
• wikien-l (archive, gmane) (English)
  • daily-article-l (archive, gmane) – sends the current article featured on the Main Page to all subscribers
  • accounts-enwiki-l (archive) – used to create accounts for new users who can't create one themselves, and internal discussion between the Account Creation Team
  • wikien-bureaucrats (archive) – English Wikipedia's Bureaucrat's mailing list; correspondence and project contact.
  • ambassador-announce-l (archive) – English Wikipedia Ambassadors
• wikieo-l (archive, gmane) (Esperanto)
• wikies-l (archive, gmane) (español)
• wikieu-l (archive, gmane) (español)
• wikifa-l (archive) (فارسی)
• wikifi-l (archive) (suomi)
• wikifr-l (archive, gmane) (français)
• wikihe-l (archive) (עברית)
• wikihi-l (archive) (हिन्दी)
• wikihu-l (archive) (magyar)
• wikiia-l (archive) (interlingua)
• wikiid-l (archive) (Bahasa Indonesia)
• wikiis-l (archive) (íslenska)
• wikiit-l (archive, gmane) (italiano)
  • wikiit-admins-l (private archive) (italiano)
• wikikn-l (archive) (ಕನ್ನಡ)
• wikilb-l (archive) (Lëtzebuergesch)
• wikija-l (archive) (日本語)
• wikiko-l (archive) (한국어)
• wikimk-l (archive) (македонски)
• wikiml-l (archive) (മലയാളം)
• wikinl-l (archive, gmane) (Nederlands)
• wikinn-l (archive) (norsk nynorsk)
• wikino-l (archive, gmane) (norsk)
• wikipl-l (archive, gmane) (polski)
• wikipt (archive, gmane) (português)
• wikiro-l (archive) (română)
• wikiru-l (archive, gmane) (русский)
  • wikiru-a (archive, gmane) (русский)
• wikisa-l (archive) (संस्कृतम्)
• wikisk-l (archive) (slovenčina)
• wikiskan-l (archive) (new all-Scandinavian list)
• wikisv-l (archive, gmane) (svenska)
• wikita-l (archive) (தமிழ்)
• wikite-l (archive) (తెలుగు)
• wikitr-l (archive) (Türkçe)
• wikiuk-l (archive) (українська)
• wikivi-l (archive, gmane) (Tiếng Việt)
• wikizh-l (archive, gmane) (中文)
• wikipedia-or (archive) (ଓଡ଼ିଆ)

Local Wiktionary mailing lists

• WiktionaryDE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
• WiktionaryPT-l (archive) (Português)

Local Wikibooks mailing lists

• WikibooksDE-l (archive) (Deutsch)

Local and otherwise Wikinews mailing lists

• Wikinews-DE-l (archive) (Deutsch)
• Wikinews-accreditation (archive) – Verifying accreditation requests
• Wikinews-hotline (archive) – Voicemails submitted to the Wikinews hotline
• Wikinews-fa (archive) (فارسی)
• Wikinews-zh (archive) (中文)

Local Wikiversity mailing lists

• Wikiversityde-l (archive, gmane) (Deutsch)

Defunct

• intlwiki-l (external archive, gmane) – formerly for Wikipedia internationalisation and multilingual coordination, closed in favor of wikipedia-l (for project-wide issues), wikitech-l (for tech issues) and requests for permissions (for administrative setup on small wikis): see Mailing list merge[1]
• wikilegal-l (archive) – legal & licensing issues, deprecated by wikimedia-l and the individual project mailing lists
• Juriwiki-l (archive) – for legal issues
• announce-l (archive, gmane) – Wikizine newsletter
  • wikizine-de (archive, gmane) – German
  • wikizine-id (archive, gmane) – Indonesian
  • wikizine-es (archive, gmane) – Spanish
• Nupedia had a number of mailing lists. Of particular interest:
  • interpret-l (mbox archive)
  • deutsch-l, espanol-l, francais-l, italiano-l (mbox archive), portogues-l
• wiki-offline-reader-l (archive) – list for the co-ordination of work on a free offline MediaWiki reader

See also

There are other ways of communicating with the community besides mailing lists. Some of them include:

• Wikimedia Meta-Wiki (this wiki!) – a general discussion and brainstorming wiki
• Wikimedia IRC channels – live chat
• Village pump equivalents on different projects – for discussions relating to the specific project: see Distribution list for a list