Wikipedia:Mailing lists

Template:Communitypage Wikipedia has a number of 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.

Offsite archives of Wikipedia's mailing lists can be found at Gmane [1] and MARC [2].

General, project-wide mailing list

The general project-wide list is Wikipedia-L. It's a resource for Wikipedia authors. If you don't want to use Wikipedia or the Wikipedia:IRC channels 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
• search the archive

English-only mailing list

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

Interlanguage mailing list

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

Language-specific mailing lists

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

Technical issues mailing list

Wikitech

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

Mediawiki

• Mediawiki-L sign-up page
• Mediawiki-L archive

Legal issues mailing list

There's a mailing list for legal issues.

• Wikilegal-L signup page
• Wikilegal-L Archive
• Wikilegal-L via NNTP

Wikibooks mailing list

Mailing list for the Wikibooks project.

• Textbook-l sign-up page
• Textbook-l archive
• Textbook-L via NNTP

Wiktionary mailing list

Mailing list for the Wiktionary project.

• Wiktionary-l sign-up page
• Wiktionary-l archive

IRC

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

Related pages

• Announcements
• Village pump
• Instant Message a wikipedian

Splitting up the Daily Digests

For Linux-Users there is a comfortable solution for splitting up the daily digest.

Put following into your .procmailrc and activate procmail support.

:0:
* ^Subject:.*mailinglist.*Digest
| formail +1 -ds >>mailinglist

gmane links

• castellano
• dansk
• deutsch
• english
• esperanto
• francais
• international
• italian
• misc
• nederlands
• nihongo
• polski
• portugues
• swedish
• technical