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Find help in real time on chat servers. They are sorted by their activity.
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Report and browse bugs and feature requests for most Wikimedia software in Phabricator .
A list of maintainers of Wikimedia software is available at Developers/Maintainers . You can leave a note on their talk page or send them an email to contact them.
If you cannot find the maintainers of a project you are looking for at Developers/Maintainers , try finding the maintainers on the project page of the software on mediawiki.org, the project owners of the project on Phabricator , or the contributors to the project on Gerrit .
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The MediaWiki Stakeholders' Group aims to advocate the needs of MediaWiki users.
The MediaWiki Farmers user group is a group of developers who work on wiki farms.
User Groups are open groups organized by themes and areas of interest.
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Subscribe to Wikimedia newsletters which cover certain areas of technical interest. You may want to first check their archives to see how active a newsletter is.
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