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#REDIRECT [[Wikimedia Foundation/Communications]]
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[[Meta:About|Meta-Wiki]] collects several master lists for communication between project members.

* [[Mailing list|Mailing Lists]] are the main medium of discussion about project policies
* [[IRC Channels]]

For internal communication there is the multilingual [[Meta:Babel]] but be aware that it is not used much. To contact a user on meta-wiki directly you can use his talk page.

== Conventions ==
* please log in to help attributing your edits
* please sign your comments with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>)
* please limit discussions to the discussion pages, or pages clearly marked for it.

==Whom to contact or ask about...==

* [[Wikimedia Foundation]]
*# General, meeting summaries: members of the [[Board of trustees]]
*# Press: Jimbo Wales
*# Financials: [[User:Daniel Mayer|Daniel Mayer]]
*# [[Grants]], Donation drives, etc: the [[Grants department]] ([[User:Danny|Danny]], [[User:Gentgeen|Gentgeen]], &c...)
*# Cooperation with other organizations: see [[Cooperation]]

* A specific [[Complete list of Wikimedia projects|Wikimedia project]]: one of the ambassadors of the project on [[Wikimedia Embassy]]
*# Press contacts: consult local pages like
*#* en: [[en:Wikipedia:Press Room|Wikipedia:Press Room]], de: [[de:Wikipedia:Presse|Wikipedia:Presse]]
*# Conflict resolution within a project: consult local pages like
*#* en: [[en:Wikipedia:Arbitration committee|Arbitration committee]], [[en:Wikipedia:Mediation committee|Mediation committee]]
*#* de: [[de:Wikipedia:Vermittlungsausschuss|Vermittlungsausschuss]]
*# Meeting in real life: consult local pages like
*#* de: [[de:Wikipedia:Treffen der Wikipedianer|Treffen der Wikipedianer]], en: [[en:Wikipedia:Meetup|Meetup]]s
*# Translations of notices and pages: List all-language translations at [[Translation]], see [[Meta:Interlanguage links]] for the process for page translations (see also [[User:ArnoLagrange|Arno Lagrange]], [[User:Sj|Sj]], &c.})
*#* Other multilingual issues: see [[Multilingualism]], [[Wikipedia languages]]

* Permissions for/on a wiki:
*# [[Meta:Requests for adminship]] - for adminship on Meta:
*# [[Requests for permissions]] - for bureaucratship/adminship requests
*: (and local request pages linked from [[Requests for permissions]])

* [[MediaWiki]]-software: on irc.freenode.net
** Main contact: [[Developer Liaison]] [[User:Tim Starling|Tim Starling]]
** General help: the [[Developer]]s on #mediawiki, or mediawiki-l@wikimedia.org
** Skin issues: [[User:Gwicke|Gwicke]]
** Timeline: [[User:Erik Zachte|Erik Zachte]]
** WikiHiero: [[en:User:Aioneko|Aioneko]]([[fr:Utilisateur:Aioneko|fr]])
** rcbot: ???

* Server administration: the [[Developer]]s (see above)
** [[Mailing lists]]: [[User:Fire|Fire]], [[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]](for wikiEN-l)

* MediaWiki tools:
** [[PyWikipediaBot]] (interwiki bot): http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot/
** [[WINOR]]] (Wikipedia offline reader): Magnus Manske
** Jedit plugin: [[User:Elian|Elian]]
** PDF export: [[de:Benutzer:Srbauer|Benutzer:Srbauer]]


== Types of People to ask ==
# Titled positions within the [[Wikimedia]] Foundation, created by the Board (generally based on community support and/or voting): [[Board]] members, volunteers with [[Official position]]s, and [[Wikimedia committees|Wikimedia Committee]] chairs.
# Big-D Developers, mailing-list admins, and IRC-admins -- community positions based on demonstrated dedication to the project.
# Official Wikimedia chapters, and titled positions within them.
# Community positions assigned by Jimbo based on community support and discussion, or elected by vote or consensus of community members : The ENWP [[en:Wikipedia:Arbitration committee|Arbitration committee]] and [[en:Wikipedia:Mediation committee|Mediation committee]], [[Stewards]], etc.
# Community positions assigned to those interested in taking on certain responsibilities: Ambassadors, ...

Those are the easy ones to track down on project wikis. Now for the harder ones:
# Unofficial overseers of various WikiProjects -- the Main Page maintainers for each WP, Project organizers, *-of-the-day maintainers, interface designers, self-appointed VfD/Village-Pump/RefDesk maintainers, project-level translation organizers, task-specific bot developers
# Unofficial overseers of various MediaWiki and MetaProjects -- detailed patches being coordinated by a small group of like-minded (small-d) developers, grant writers, press releasers, official-text translators
# Repositories of information -- people who read everything, and have been around since the Dawn of Time. Valuable and often overlooked as sources of information...
# High-availability contributors -- people who can be found within any given 12-hr period, on IRC or via their Talk: page or via email.
# Active members of chapters or projects who can be reached whenever organizers or overseers cannot

== Wikimedia Foundation proper ==
(see [[Organization chart]] for more, and for a list of official WMF resources)
The bylaws are a bit confused, and among other things specify some structures which do not exist as such. This should be worked out in the next bylaws revision.

== Other structures within Wikimedia ==

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Active '''informal structures''' meriting committees
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''Fund Raising''
:[[Grants]], Donation drives, etc. Currently informal; [[NEH grant|grant materials]] are being worked on by many including [[User:Danny|Danny]] & [[User:Gentgeen|Gentgeen]]

''Interproject & Interlingual Communications''
:[[Wikimedia Embassy|Ambassadors]] for different projects and different languages; oversight of interwiki linkage, cross-fertilization, sharing of overhead (policy pages, bots, account info, groups of [[translators]]).

''Legal Advisors''
:Evaluating copyright, IP, and incorporation law in various countries. Advising is needed for Wikimedia as a whole, for subprojects like WikiReaders, and for local chapters. Not in touch with the WM lawer.

''Public Relations''
:Responding to inquiries; generating press releases; attending media events. Local press contacts exist for France (via [[User:Anthere|Anthere]]), Germany (via [[User:elian|elian]]), and China ([[User:Fuzheado|Fuzheado]]). See also ''Terry Foote'' on the [[Organization chart]].

''Welcoming Committee''
: Coordination of current users to nurture and draw in new contributors and efforts, to gather feedback on the newbie experience, and to promote awareness and tools to reduce newbie casualties.
: Also coordination of various sporadically-manned '''Volunteer Squads''': Project-level and up (Volunteer Fire Dept [often crossing language boundaries when there is a transwiki attack], RC squad, New Pages squad, &c.)

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'''Formal''' groups within and across WM projects
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* '''Project stewardship''': WM-wide [[Stewards]] & [[Developer]]s -- Project-level Bureaucrats -- Project-level [[Wikipedia:Administrators|Admins]]
* '''Project conflict resolution''': Project-level Arbitration committees and mediation committees
* '''IRC Administration''': IRC channel ops, IRC server-admin contacts (for setting cloaks, &c.)

[[Category:Wikimedia Foundation]]

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