Telegram
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Telegram is a popular way for Wikimedians to chat and discuss in real time. Below is a list of public Telegram groups/channels for different Wikimedian Projects.
Telegram requires a phone number to register. It is possible not to share the information with other users.
Policies
Each channel/group may have their own policies. Please show respect to others.
Public groups should use Wikidata property Telegram username (P3789) to record their group ID. Eg see Chinese Wikipedia.
But many groups prefer to stay private to avoid spam. In that case you can add a statement that P3789 is "unknown" with qualifier "described at URL" pointing to the relevant section below. Eg see Wikidata that has two Telegram groups:
- A public group "wikidatachat" (Wikidata Help) with fewer subscribers
- A private group "Wikidata" with more subscribers, expressed as "unknown" value with qualifier that points to a section below with a "joinchat" link
You can also record number of subscribers (P3744) to allow users to pick more popular groups, as shown for Wikidata.
Wikimedia
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia announcements | Channel | en and others | Announcements to the global Wikimedia communities. |
| Wikimedia General | Group | en | General discussion of Wikimedia-related matters. |
| Wikimedia Belgium | Group | nl/fr/en | Belgium Chapter |
| Wikimedia Education | Group | en | Informal discussions related to Wikimedia Education |
| Wikimedia LGBT+ | Group | en | Wikimedia user group supporting the LGBT+ community and friends |
| Wikipedia Library | Channel | en | |
| Wikimedia les sans pagEs | Channel | fr | Wikimedia user group supporting initiatives aiming at reducung gender biaises in teh francophone community |
| WikiPhoto | Channel | en | |
| Wikimedia Colombia | Group | es | |
| Wikimedia Perú | Group | es | Grupo de usuarios/as wikimedistas de Perú. Más información en Q29949307 |
| Esperanto and Free Knowledge | Group | eo | |
| ВікіФлудоЧат | Group | uk | Informal Wikipedia and broader Wikimedia discussions in Ukrainian |
| GenderGap Group | Group | en and others | Informal discussions related to Gender Gap |
| WikiFranca | Group | fr | WikiFranca |
| Wikimedians for Sustainable Development | Group | en | |
| Wikimedia Belarus | Channel | be | |
| Wikimedia Belarus | Group | be | |
| Wikimedia Belarus (tarask) | Group | be | |
| Wikimedia Poland | Channel | pl | |
| Wikimedia Poland | Group | pl | |
| Wikimedia Portugal | Group | pt | |
| Wikimedia Indonesia | Group | id | |
| Wikimedia Indonesia | Channel | id | |
| Wikimedia Ukraine | Channel | uk | |
| Wikimedia Sverige | Group | sv | |
| Wikipedia Asian Month | Group | en | |
| CROW - Conference Remote Options for Wikimedians | Group | en | WikiProject remote event participation group |
| Abstract Wikipedia | Group | en | Abstract Wikipedia group |
| Wikimedia Movement Strategy | Group | en | Sharing experience on priorities that we should work on in 2021 |
| Wikimedia Hubs | Group | en | Community of practice for the Regional & thematic Hubs |
| Wikimedia Language Diversity | Group | en | Policy, tech, linguistic and other relevant discussions tied to indigenous languages on Wikimedia projects |
| WMCEE | Group | en | WMCEE group |
| Wiki User Groups Affiliates | Group | en | |
| Wikimania Chat | Group | en | wikimania: group |
| Wikimania Annoucements | Channel | en | wikimania: channel |
| Wikimedia Small Projects | Group | en, es | Wikimedia Small Projects in Spanish group |
| Stewards | Group | en | private group for Stewards |
| Wikispore | Group | en | Wikispore group |
| WMCA Discussions | Group | en, fr | Wikimedia Canada discussions group |
| Global Open Initiative | Group | en | Global Open Initiative discussions group |
| Dagbani Wikimedians | Group | en | Dagbani Wikimedians User Group discussions group |
| Accessibility | Group | en | |
| WikiCamp L'Escandille | Group | fr | WikiCamp L'Escandille discussions group |
| Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network (SWAN) | Group | en | Strategic Wikimedia Affiliates Network group |
| Wikimedia AI | Group | en | Discussing issues of AI and machine learning |
| Wikimedia Hausa | Group | Ha | Hausa Wikipedia community |
| Igbo Wikimedians User Group | Group | ig | Igbo Wikimedians User Group discussion and update group |
| Ig Wiki Librarians Hub | Group | ig, ha, yo | Ig Wiki Librarians Hub discussion/update group |
| Tyap Wikimedians User Group | Group | kcg | Tyap Wikimedians User Group discussions handle |
Project wikis
Wikibooks
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikibooks-zh | Group | zh |
Wikimedia Commons
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons Community | Group | en | A group for Commons people of all kinds. more info |
| Wikimedia Commons Turkey | Group | tr | A group for Commons people of all kinds for Turkish users |
| Wikimedia Commons Zh | Group | zh | A group for Commons people of all kinds for Chinese users |
Wikidata
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Group | en | General conversation about Wikidata |
| Wikidata en español | Group | es | Discusión general sobre Wikidata |
| Wikidata de | Group | de | General conversation about Wikidata but in German |
| Wikidata (IT) | Group | it | Conversation about Wikidata in Italian |
| GWMAB | Group | it | Conversation about Wikidata in Italian, especially about Wikidata and GLAM (see d:Wikidata:Gruppo Wikidata per Musei, Archivi e Biblioteche) |
| Wikidata Sverige | Group | sv | Conversation about Wikidata topics related to Sweden |
| Wikidata Norge | Group | nb, nn | Conversation about Wikidata topics related to Norway |
| WikiCite | Group | en | Wikicite: Open citations and bibliographic metadata. |
| Wikidata Ex Música | Group | en, other | Unofficial group for conversations concerning music on Wikidata |
| Wikidata Norden | Group | da, en, fi, fo, is, kl, nb, nn, smi, sv | Conversation about Wikidata topics related to the Nordics |
| Wikidata Lexicographical data | Group | en | Group dedicated to d:Wikidata:Lexicographical data discussions |
| Wikidata EntitySchemas | Group | en | Group dedicated to d:WD:EntitySchema discussions |
| Wikidata API Developer Chat | Group | en | Group dedicated to new developer tools/projects |
| Wiki Mentor Africa | Group | en | Group dedicated to discussions about the Wiki Mentor Africa program. |
| OpenRefine-Wikimedia | Group | en | Wikimedians who use 💎 OpenRefine 💎 |
| WikiProject Ontology | Group | en | For discussing the Wikidata ontology. |
Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| General group | Group | en | General group about Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions in English |
| Developer group | Group | en | For technical engineering discussions about WikiLambda, Wikifunctions, and Abstract Wikipedia |
Wikinews
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikinotizie - il gruppo | Group | it | General group about Wikinews in Italian |
| Wikinotizie | Channel | it | Broadcast recent changes on it.wikinews |
| Wikinews-zh | Group | zh | Broadcast recent changes on zh.wikinews |
| Wikinews-eo | Channel | eo | Wikinews in Esperanto (vikinovaĵoj) |
| Wikinotícias | Group | pt | Portuguese Wikinews group. |
Wikipedia
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Қазақша Уикипедия | Channel | kk | Kazakh-language Wikipedia |
| QazWiki group | Group | kk | Kazakh Wikipedians community w:kk:Уикипедия:Telegram |
| wikipedia-cdo | Group | cdo | 閩東語維基百科 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄ Wikipedia |
| Arab Wikipedians | Group | arabic | Arab Wikipedians community |
| Wikipedia Basa Bali | Group | ban | Balinese wikipedians community |
| বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া | Group | bn | বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া সম্প্রদায় / Bangla Wikipedia community |
| Bangla Wikipedia | Channel | bn | Bangla Wikipedia |
| cdo wiki bulletin | Channel | cdo | |
| Grup Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia | Group | id | Warung Kopi Wikipediawan bahasa Indonesia |
| Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia | Channel | id | |
| Wikipedia | Group | it | Wikipedia in italiano |
| Rembugan Wikipédia Jawa | Group | jv | |
| Wikipédia Jawa | Channel | jv | |
| Wikipedia in Lombard | Group | lmo, it | Wikipedia in lumbaard |
| Wikipedia-lzh | Group | lzh, zh | 文言維基大典 / Classical Chinese Wikipedia |
| lzh wiki bulletin | Channel | lzh | 文言維基大典木鐸 |
| WamLzh | Channel | lzh | 維基大典亞洲月 |
| Portuguese Wikipedia | Group | pt | Portuguese Wikipedia group. Other languages are welcome. 186 members as of March 2021. |
| Wikipedia-mnc | Group | mnc, zh | Manju gisun i Uikipidiya / Manchu Wikipedia |
| Wikipedia-sjo | Group | sjo, zh | Sibe gisun Uikipidiya / Xibe Wikipedia |
| Wikipedianët | Group | sq | Albanian Wikipedia / Wikipedian në shqip |
| Wikipedia-zh | Group | zh | 中文维基百科。English Accepted. Interconnected with #Wikipedia-zhconnect. For more Chinese Wikipedia Telegram groups/channels, please refer to w:zh:WP:TG. |
| Wikipedia-zh-patrol | Channel | zh | Broadcast newly created pages on ZhWiki. |
| Wikipedia-yue | Group | zh-yue | 粵文維基百科傾計區 / Cantonese Wikipedia |
| cvn-zho | Group | lzh, zh-yue, zh-min-nan, gan, hak, wuu, cdo | |
| wikipedia_de | Group | de | German-language Wikipedia |
| Чат русской Википедии | Group | ru | Russian-language Wikipedia |
| Википедия. Неофициально | Channel | ru | Russian-language Wikipedia |
| WikiUa | Channel | uk | Ukrainian-language Wikipedia / Неофіційний канал української Вікіпедії |
| WikiMK | Channel | mk | Macedonian Wikipedia / Неофицијалниот канал за македонска Википедија |
| WikiPL | Channel | pl | Polish Wikipedia / Nieoficjalny polski kanał Wikipedii |
| turkcevikipedi | Group | tr | Turkish Wikipedia / Türkçe Vikipedi |
| bgwiki | Group | bg | Bulgarian-language Wikipedia and Wikimedia community |
| Oʻzbekcha Vikipediya (chat) | Group | uz | Uzbek Wikipedia group / Oʻzbekcha Vikipediya Telegram guruhi |
| Qaraqalpaq Wikipediası | Group | kaa | Qaraqalpaq Wikipedia group / Qaraqalpaq Wikipediası |
| Qaraqalpaq Wikipedia | Group | tt | Questions and Answers on Tatar Wikipedia / Татарча Википедия буенча сорау-җавап |
| Wikipedia en español | Group | es | Spanish Wikipedia / Grupo para intercambiar ideas, ayudar, avisar de problemas, etc. |
| Wikipedia en español | Canal | es | Spanish Wikipedia / Canal de información |
| Wikipedia på norsk | Group | nb, nn | Norwegian Wikipedia communities |
| Wikipedia på norsk | Group | nb, nn | Norwegian Wikipedia communities |
Wikisource
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikisource global community | Group | ||
| Komunitas Wikisource Indonesia | Group | id | General group about Wikisource in Indonesian |
| Wikisource | Group | it | General group about Wikisource in Italian |
| Vikikaynak | Group | tr | Turkish Wikisource |
| wikisource-zh | Group | zh |
Wikiversity
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikiversità | Group | it | General group about Wikiversity in Italian |
| wikiversity-zh | group | zh | May be rather inactive, for prompt assistance, do directly use QQ group (details on village pump) or directly leave your message on either the village pump or any sysop / patroller talk pages |
Wikivoyage
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikivoyage | Group | it | General group about Wikivoyage in Italian |
| Vikigezgin | Group | tr | Turkish Wikivoyage |
Wikiquote
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vikisöz | Group | tr | Turkish Wikiquote |
MediaWiki and technical
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Hackathon | Group | en | This group is mirrored to IRC channel #wikimedia-hackathon and used during Hackathons |
| Wikimedia Hackathon mentoring group | Group | en | This group is used during Hackathons, specifically for newcomers and mentors |
| MediaWiki HELP | Group | it/en | Group about help in MediaWiki in Italian and English |
| MediaWiki | Group | ru | |
| Wikimedia Cloud Services support | Group | en | This group is mirrored to the IRC channel #wikimedia-cloud |
| Translatewiki | Group | en | Official support channel for translatewiki.net. Mirrored to the IRC channel #translatewiki. |
| translatewiki.net 中文社群 | Group | zh | |
| Wikibase community | Group | en | Group for community users and developers of Wikibase, the MediaWiki extension driving Wikidata |
| Wikibase.cloud | Group | en | Discussion, news and support related to Wikimedia Deutschland's Wikibase.cloud |
| Wikimedia Tool Supporters | Group | en | For everyone who cares about sustainability of Wikimedia's volunteer tools |
| Programs & Events Dashboard | Group | en | Discussion and help for Programs & Events Dashboard (outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org) |
Fellow movements
| Name | Channel or Group | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| OpenStreetMap | Group | en | Global OpenStreetMap group, see also List of OSM-centric Telegram accounts |
@wikilinksbot
@wikilinksbot is a bot that can be added to Telegram groups by anyone, that will link [[wiki links]] (including all interwiki links), {{templates}} and Wikidata entities like Q42 or P31 when they are used by chat members. The bot can be configured for each group to link to different wikis (even non-Wikimedia wikis), use different languages for Wikidata labels and more. Only group administrators or the bot maintainers can change the bot configuration for a group, but anyone can try out the options by starting a private chat with the bot. The full documentation can be found on the bot's GitHub page.
Links not working?
Many of the groups are not public to avoid spam. That means they can't be found by searching Telegram and you will need to use an invite link or have someone add you manually.
If the links on this page don't work in your browser, try opening them from within Telegram:
- Copy the link on this page
- Switch to Telegram
- Find the "saved messages" section
- Paste the link then send the message to send the link to yourself
- Click the link in the message you just created
If that also doesn't work, you could search for the group "Wikimedia General chat" and ask in there if someone can help.
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