The projects of the Wikimedia Foundation have a number of mailing lists which are open to anyone who subscribes and a few private mailing lists open only to selected users.
Please see the list descriptions for posting information. Most lists are moderated, so that posts by non-members need to be manually approved. Some lists disallow any posts by nonmembers.
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Email addresses are currently obfuscated in the downloadable archives, making them unreadable by some mail readers. To convert one of these archives to mbox format, you could use perl -p -i -e '/^From/ && s/ at /@/' filenameorsed '/^From /s/ at /@/' obfuscated.mbox > clear.mbox.
Wikipedia-l for issues specific to Wikipedia (and not sister projects such as Wiktionary) but affecting editions of Wikipedia in more than one language
There are various private mailing lists hosted by Wikimedia Foundation servers, although some of them allow public messaging. They facilitate internal communication among Wikimedia Foundation board members, and certain committees and subcommittees.
oversight-l, the oversight mailing list, used for oversighter group discussion only (only those with oversight rights can send to or read it, non-member emails are automatically rejected) NOTE:Please do not send requests for oversight to this list any longer. Instead, use oversight-en-wp mentioned below.
oversight-en-wpwikipedia.org, the oversight request VRT queue (anyone can send messages and requests to this address, but only users with oversight rights can view those messages).
checkuser-l, the global checkuser mailing list (only those with checkuser rights can send to or read it, non-member emails are automatically rejected)
checkuser-en-wpwikipedia.org, the checkuser request VRT queue (anyone can send messages and requests to this address, but only users with checkuser rights can view those messages).
accounts-enwiki-l mailing list for discussion of account requests and the ACC tool interface
wikipedia-en-editfilters mailing list for discussion of edit filters (anybody can send to the list, but only edit filter helpers, edit filter managers and administrators may read it)
unblock-en-l mailing list for discussion of unblock requests and the UTRS tool interface (note: this list was used for unblock requests, but was phased out for that purpose in March 2012 with the deployment of UTRS)
otrs-en-l mailing list for discussion between English-speaking OTRS members of all queues.
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wikimedia.org) is the primary mailing list of ARBCOM business.
