Difference between revisions of "Support"

Latest revision as of 09:21, 4 January 2026

There are many ways to get help — from online documentation to support from the community on Discord, IRC or forums. If you are experiencing problems, you should consider reporting a bug.

Forums

Discord

Wesnoth maintains a presence on Discord through its own official Discord server. Several channels are bridged to IRC in order to allow Discord and IRC users to interact with each other.

IRC

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a time-tested communications system that offers greater flexibility and extensibility than modern chat platforms. For more information, check out Wikipedia's article and IRCHelp.org.

Unless otherwise noted, all channels are hosted at the Libera.Chat IRC network. If you don't have an IRC client installed or your firewall blocks ports 6667, 6697, and other supported ports, you can use Libera.Chat's web client instead.

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-There are many ways to get help. From online documentation to support from the community on IRC or forums.
+There are many ways to get help — from online documentation to support from the community on Discord, IRC or forums. If you are experiencing problems, you should consider [[ReportingBugs|reporting a bug]].
-== Wiki Resources ==
+== Forums ==
-* [[Play|Online Players Guide]] - Game manual, walkthroughs, strategy guides, and more.
+<ul style="-moz-column-count:2;-webkit-column-count:2;column-count:2">
-* [[Create|Content-Creation Guide]] - Manual showing how to create new campaigns for Wesnoth.
+<li><b>[//forums.wesnoth.org/ Official Wesnoth forums]</b>
-* [[StartingPoints|Starting Points]] - List of pages to serve as starting point for diving deeply into the wiki...
+<li>[[Glossary|Wesnoth Acronyms]] - forum lingo
-* [[MP_CodeOfConduct | Multiplayer Information ]] - Info about server moderators, useful MP commands, and our online Code of Conduct.
+<li>[http://www.wesnothlife.ru/forum/ Russian Wesnoth Forums (WesnothLife)]
+<li>[http://www.wesnoth.com.pl/news.php Polish Wesnoth Website]
+<li>[http://www35.atwiki.jp/weswiki/ Japanese Wesnoth Website]
+</ul>
-== Reporting Bugs ==
+== Discord ==
-If you are experiencing problems, you should consider [[ReportingBugs|reporting a bug]].
-== Community ==
+Wesnoth maintains a presence on Discord through its own <b>[https://discord.gg/battleforwesnoth official Discord server]</b>. Several channels are bridged to IRC in order to allow Discord and IRC users to interact with each other.
-When asking for help with some technical problem in the game forums, please provide the following information:
+== IRC ==
-* which operating system do you use (e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac OSX)
+IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is a time-tested communications system that offers greater flexibility and extensibility than modern chat platforms. For more information, check out [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Wikipedia's article] and [http://www.irchelp.org/ IRCHelp.org].
-* which version of Wesnoth do you use (it is displayed in the bottom left corner of title screen)
-* contents of file "stderr.txt"
-** on MS Windows, it is here: "C:\Program Files\Wesnoth\stderr.txt"
-=== Forums ===
+Unless otherwise noted, all channels are hosted at the [https://libera.chat/ Libera.Chat] IRC network. If you don't have an IRC client installed or your firewall blocks ports 6667, 6697, and other [https://libera.chat/guides/connect supported ports], you can use [https://web.libera.chat Libera.Chat's web client] instead.
-* [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/ Official Wesnoth forums]
-* [[Wesnoth_Acronyms_and_Slang|Wesnoth Acronyms]] - forum lingo
-* [http://www.wesnoth.cn Chinese wesnoth forums]
-* [http://wif.altervista.org/index.php  Wesnoth Italian Forums (W.I.F)]
-* [http://www.wesnothlife.ru/forum/ Russian Wesnoth Forums]
-=== IRC ===
-If you don't know what IRC is, check out [http://www.irchelp.org/ irchelp].
-All of the following channels use the freenode IRC network unless otherwise noted. If you don't have an IRC client installed on your machine, you can use a web gateway service, such as [http://webchat.freenode.net webchat.freenode.net], for freenode.
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth #wesnoth]  this channel is for general conversation amongst Wesnoth users and developers alike.
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-dev #wesnoth-dev] the development discussion channel. Most contributors and developers (WML, C++ and art people alike) hang around here, exchanging ideas and code patches.
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-mp #wesnoth-mp] the multiplayer servers' status and development discussion channel.
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-writing #wesnoth-writing] the channel for discussion of improving Wesnoth's writing
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-music #wesnoth-music]
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-umc-dev #wesnoth-umc-dev] the look-alike of #wesnoth-dev for the [http://www.wesnoth.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21413 Wesnoth User-made Add-ons Development] repository.
-* [irc://irc.tweakers.net/wesnoth #wesnoth (Dutch channel)] Connect to irc.tweakers.net network
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-de #wesnoth-de (German channel)] the German look-alike of #wesnoth, mainly used by German-speaking users and translators.
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-pl #wesnoth-pl (Polish channel)] as above, but Polish
-* [irc://irc.syrolnet.org/WIF #WIF (Italian channel)] Connect to irc.sylornet.org network
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-gl #wesnoth-gl (Galician channel)]
-* [irc://irc.freenode.net/wesnoth-la #wesnoth-la (Latin channel)]
-You can also see the [http://irclog.wesnoth.org/ logs] of the #wesnoth, #wesnoth-de, #wesnoth-dev and #wesnoth-umc-dev channels.
-=== Mailing Lists ===
-* [https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-dev/ wesnoth-dev] ([https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-dev/ archives]): the mailing list for discussing mainline development issues; it is not intended for bug reports or feature requests. See [[ReportingBugs]] for those.
-* [https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-commits/ wesnoth-commits] ([https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-commits/ archives]): all commits made to the mainline SVN repository are automatically echoed in this list for those who want or need to keep track of them. New developers and contributors are required to subscribe to this list.
-* [https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/wesnoth-i18n/ wesnoth-i18n] ([https://mail.gna.org/public/wesnoth-i18n/ archives]): the internationalization (i18n) mailing list; all translation team maintainers and the i18n managers should subscribe and keep track of announcements and discussions taking place in this list.
-=== Other Servers List ===
-see [http://www.wesnoth.org/wiki/MultiplayerServers here]
 [[Category:Troubleshooting and Bugs]]