Wikipedia:Mailing lists

Wikipedia has lots of mailing lists. You can read them on the internet or by email or by NNTP using GMANE. Mailing lists show up in Google searches.

Old messages can be found at GMANE [1] and MARC [2].

There is not a mailing list only for Simple English. You should probably use the English list or the international list.

Project-specific

Administrators' mailing list, mainly used as a route of appeal for unblocks. All current administrators may subscribe to this list.

• List info page

The oversight team also have a mailing list for suppression requests. Only current oversighters may subscribe to this list.

• List info page

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 Meta) 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

English Wikipedia 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

Foundation mailing list

Foundation-l is for any cross-project issues, discussions and cooperation. It is also for things that affect the Wikimedia foundation. Legal issues can be posted to this list.

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

Language-specific mailing lists

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

Technical issues mailing list

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

Wikibooks mailing list

Mailing list for the Wikibooks project.

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

Wikipedia also has a real-time chat channel. See meta:IRC channels for more info.

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

You may find the discussion of this page at the English Wikipedia useful.