Talk pages consultation 2019/Tools in use

Right now, different communities use different tools to communicate with each other. Here's a partial list. Please add what your community or group uses! (It's okay to add links, too.)

On-wiki communication tools

Tools used	Which communities?	Notes
Free-form wikitext-based talk pages	Available at all WMF wikis	Some sections of free-form talk pages might be required to be formatted so a bot can read them in the format it requires, e.g. en:Template:Requested move is used to start structured discussions about moving (renaming) pages. Various wikis have built "reply links" on top, like enwp's reply-link or ruwp's convenientDiscussions.
LiquidThreads	English Wikinews, translatewiki (non-WMF)
StructuredDiscussions (Flow)	Beta feature on some wikis like French Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia and Wikidata Default talk pages system on MediaWiki.org and the WMF's internal wiki Polish Wikipedia on newbies' support desk, one user testing on his talk page, talk page of WP:Flow
Edit summaries	Available at all WMF wikis
VisualEditor	Available at all WMF wikis	e.g. an inexperienced editor tries to change an article title and populates en:Category:Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications; an administrator moves the page for them. On some wikis it is available in project and wikiproject namespace used also for discussions outside of talk namespaces
Convenient Discussions	Russian Wikipedia and another Russian Projects	A JavaScript shell script over the existing Wikipedia discussion system that allows you to send and edit messages without switching to a separate page. The script only works with Russian `d F Y` dates for now. So, it works only in Russian Projects.

Social media platforms

Tools used	Which communities?	Notes
Facebook	Arabic Wikipedia, Bangla Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Portuguese, Georgian, Khmer, Macedonian, Polish, Hindi Wikipedia, Thai Wikipedia and more. Also the Wikimedia Foundation, dozens of affiliates, and many events, including Wikimania.	See m:Facebook pages
Instagram	Bangla Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia
Internet forums
Blogs

E-mail

Tools used	Which communities?	Notes
Wikipedia-l and similar public mailing lists	English Wikipedia
Private mailing lists	Arbitration Committees, Stewards, Checkusers
Special:EmailUser	Available at all WMF wikis, for users who opt-in
Volunteer Response Team's OTRS	All WMF wikis, especially Commons (image copyright)

Messaging systems

Tools used	Which communities?	Notes
Discord (Q47303831)	Multiple language-based servers (English, Chinese, French, Russian), typically with channels for commons, wikipedia, and some wikiprojects (i.e. videogames, anime); also non-Wikipedia based servers for en.wiktionary and MediaWiki on Discord, probably many others
Discourse (Q71341460)	Wikimedia Developer Support	phab:#discourse
The Discuss instance of Wikimedia Space	Movement organizers, affiliates, contributors, partners, Wikimedia Foundation	Discuss (based on Discourse)
IRC (Q4653983)	MediaWiki devs, Stewards, French Wikipedia RC patrollers, Checkusers, Oversighters, English Wikipedia admins, many others
Matrix	MediaWiki Stakeholders Group	m:Matrix.org
Skype	Latvian Wikipedia (mostly text chat)
Slack	Wiki Education Foundation, Wikimedia NYC
Telegram	Wikimedia General, Wikidata, Persian Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia, Italian Wikipedia, Russian Wikipedia, Chinese Wikipedia(s), AI developers, GLAM, LGBT, and probably many others.
Twitter	Bangla Wikipedia, Indonesian Wikipedia	See m:Microblogging handles
WhatsApp	Hindi Wikipedia, Gujarati Wikipedia
Zulip

Video conference calls

Tools used	Which communities?	Notes
Google Hangouts/Meet	Hindi Wikipedians
Skype	Wikimedia Australia	Committee meetings; Annual General Meetings
Blue Jeans
Zoom	Wiki Education Foundation
WebEx
Jitsi Meet	Wikimédia France, Wikipedia & Education User Group, and tested by WMF	generally positive, except for some persistent connectivity issues (as of late 2018)
BigBlueButton	(Previously used by Wikimedia Switzerland)	previously required Flash for everything, html5 available from 2019

Other

Tools used	Which communities?	Notes
Face-to-face meetings	German Wikipedia, French Wiktionary, Georgian Wikipedia, Hindi Wikipedia, various affiliates
Blogs or similar pages	Bangla Wikiprojects
Telephone hotline	German Wikipedia
Personal telephone calls	India chapter
Phabricator	Devs, some affiliates	Task tracking, calendars, blogs
Google Docs	Some community organizers	Planning editing parties and other events; task tracking

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