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Meta-Wiki collects several master lists for communication between project members.

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

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please sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~)
please limit discussions to the discussion pages, or pages clearly marked for it.

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+[[Meta:About|Meta-Wiki]] collects several master lists for communication between project members.
-The [[Main_Page]] probably has a section called "Information network" on it. It is the primary list of communication related topics.
-* This page is to serve as a phone book of sorts (untill it gets too big) and
-* a directory of communication tools, methods, and conventions. available to editors, and readers for the purpose of maintining wikimedia projects
+* [[Mailing list|Mailing Lists]] are the main medium of discussion about project policies
-== functionality built into MediaWiki ==
+* [[IRC Channels]]
-besides the obvious use of mediawiki as a content delivery (communication!) system,
-* [[User talk pages]] can display a message on another users next page render, that they have messages.
+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.
-* The signature <nowiki>~~~~</nowiki> (four tildas, (squiggilly lines, the key before the 1) can help clarify who the speaker is.
-* By convention, most pages are production pages, and are not appropriate for discussions, but there is an associated [[talk page]] for each content page.
-* You can use the [[page history]] features to figure out exactly what changes have been done to a page, this will save on communication efforts.
-* [[w:Wikipedia:Template_messages]] are great ways to communicate problems with, or status of pages.
 == Conventions ==
+* please log in to help attributing your edits
-* Please communicate before making major changes to a page, especially when the page has been edited recently by a major contributor
-* please sign your comments (for tildas)
+* please sign your comments with four tildes (<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>)
-* please limit discussions to the discussion pages, or pages clearly marked for it
+* please limit discussions to the discussion pages, or pages clearly marked for it.
-* questions about content have been known to be accepted directly in the body of some pages, it's best to answer by fixing the problem and moving the question to the discussion page.
-==IRC==
-[[IRC Channels]] is the authorative page on this topic.
-==Mailing lists==
-[[Mailing list]] appears to be an authorative list of email lists related to wikimedia projects, in many languages!
-== Voice Conferencing ==
-=== Team Speak ===
-is primarily used for video games, however, this could facilitate wiki editing, by allowing people to type and talk at the same time.
-=== IP telephony ===
-is another possible method to communicate with other wiki editors.
-=== Plain old telephone ===
-Long distance is relatively cheap these days,
-[[Users receptive to telephone calls]]
-== Instant Messaging ==
-Check peoples users pages to see if they have listed ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, Zepher, or other IM account information.
-You can also post a message on the [[en:Wikipedia:Village pump|Village pump]]. Or you can try to contact a wikipedian directly via [[en:instant messaging|instant messaging]]: see [[en:Wikipedia:Instant Messaging Wikipedians|Instant messaging Wikipedians]].
-==old snipits of Information network on Main Page ==
-===Information network===
-Informing, i.e., things that are more urgent or being discussed right now. How to contact users of other languages.
-* '''[[Goings-on]]''' day to day update on community-wide topics
-* [[Wikimedia News]] WM project public announcements
-* [[Wikimedia Embassy]] (contact between wikimedia projects)
-* '''[[Meta:Babel]]''' to ask a question
-* [[Current issues]] news from local wikipedias
-* [[Mailing list|Mailing Lists]]
-* [[Meta:Categories|Navigation by category]]