Overview Wikipedia:Mailing lists

1 overview

1.1 public mailing lists
1.2 private mailing lists

1.2.1 arbitration committee , functionaries
1.2.2 other

overview
public mailing lists

there complete list of public mailing lists wikimedia foundation matters @ meta, including:

projects other wikipedia
languages other english
local chapters serving predominantly non-english-speaking users

the public mailing lists wikipedia project include:

wikien-l email discussion of english wikipedia

searchable, threaded archive
wikien-l downloadable mailing list archive (not searchable)
wikien-l via nntp


wikimedia-l announcements, cross-project matters , wikimedia foundation issues
wikipedia-l issues specific wikipedia (and not sister projects such wiktionary) affecting editions of wikipedia in more 1 language -- defunct
mediawiki-l people questions own installation of mediawiki software (i.e., not wikimedia projects)
wikitech-l wikimedia development issues, technical discussions, , hardware purchases
daily-article-l extract of english wikipedia s featured article of day
mobile-l discussions wikimedia projects on mobile devices
gender gap brings people of gender interested in improving participation of women in wikipedia , related projects.

private mailing lists

there various private mailing lists hosted wikimedia foundation servers, although of them allow public messaging. facilitate internal communication among wikimedia foundation board members, , committees , subcommittees.

arbitration committee , functionaries

the arbitration committee s mailing lists, including clerks. , functionaries.

arbcom-l mailing list primary mailing list of arbcom business




arbcom-en-b , arbcom-en-c secondary , tertiary mailing lists arbcom business






clerks-l mailing list mailing list coordination of committee s clerks




functionaries-en mailing list checkusers, oversighters, current , former members of arbitration committee, , members of staff of wikimedia foundation
oversight-l, oversight mailing list, used oversighter group discussion (only oversight rights can send or read it, non-member emails automatically rejected) note: please not send requests oversight list longer. instead, use oversight-en-wp mentioned below.




oversight-en-wp, oversight request otrs queue (anyone can send messages this, oversight rights can read it)




checkuser-l, checkuser mailing list (only checkuser rights can send or read it, non-member emails automatically rejected)

other

mediation-en-l, mediation committee s mailing list
wikien-bureaucrats mailing list (anyone can send this, bureaucrat rights can read it)
accounts-enwiki-l mailing list discussion of account requests , acc tool interface
wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list discussion of edit filters (anybody can send list, edit filter managers , administrators may read it)
unblock-en-l mailing list discussion of unblock requests , utrs tool interface (note: list used unblock requests, phased out purpose in march 2012 deployment of utrs)
otrs-en-l mailing list discussion between english-speaking otrs members of queues.