Template:Communication channels

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Example used on this page:

{{Communication channels
|forum category=foo
|list name=foo
|irc channel=#foo
}}

Template for linking official communication channels of a project. The links are displayed on Desktop to the right of the page title. In the mobile view they unfortunately aren't displayed yet.

Template parameters[Edit template data]

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
forum category	forum category	The name of the community forum category (without the # prefix). Example communities:de	Line	optional
forum tag	forum tag	The name of the community forum tag.	Line	optional
forum	forum	Link to own forum.	URL	optional
list name	list name	The name of the mailing list.	Line	optional
list baseurl	list baseurl	The base URL which is prepended to the list name. Default https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/	URL	optional
irc channel	irc channel	The name of the IRC channel (including the # prefix).	Line	optional
irc server	irc server	The hostname of the IRC server. Default irc.oftc.net	Line	optional
matrix room	matrix room	The name of the Matrix chatroom (including the # prefix). Default Defaults to a bridged room when an OFTC or Libera.Chat IRC channel is specified.	Line	optional
Mastodon address	mastodon address	Address on the Mastodon decentralized social network. Example user@server.domain	Line	optional
Bluesky handle	bluesky handle	Account handle on Bluesky	Line	optional
issue tracker	issue tracker	URL of the issue/bug tracker.	URL	optional
github discussions	github discussions	For GitHub Discussions the name of the GitHub organization and the repository separated by a slash. Example osm-search/Nominatim	Line	optional
telegram	telegram	The Telegram group ID (without the @).	Line	optional
slack url	slack url	The URL of the Slack server.	URL	optional
discord	discord	The ID of the Discord invite link.	Line	optional
facebook group	facebook group	The ID of the Facebook group.	Line	optional

Social media hashtags

The template also automatically adds links to search Twitter and en.osm.town for a hashtag derived from the page title. But these links are hidden by default to avoid overloading the interface with links (that might yield no or only partially relevant results).

You can enable the display of these links by adding the following line(s) to your common.css:

#channel-en-osm-town { display: initial !important; }
#channel-twitter { display: initial !important; }

The admins have been requested to create MediaWiki gadgets for this, so that the display of the links can be enabled by just ticking a check box in the preferences.

See also

• Announcement of this template on the forum
• Module:Communication channels — the Lua code powering this template
• mw:Page status indicators — the MediaWiki feature that lets us display the links next to the page title
• Contact channels

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