I'd expect each WMF engineering team's wiki page (mostly on mediawiki.org) to have a section called "Contact" with mailing list and IRC channel information, for the sake of transparency.
(Side note: When new teams / contact means are established pages to update should likely also be documented, like meta:IRC/Channels)
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | None | T115853 Every WMF engineering team should have a "Contact" section on its public wiki page | |||
| Invalid | None | T117383 Communicate how to contact Reading team |
Note that not all departments/teams have a requirement for an IRC channel or a mailing list - can also be totally unneeded overhead.
On 2016-02-01:
| Team page | Team page linked from wmf:Staff? | Mailing list contact info? | IRC contact info? | Section name? | Phab link somewhere? |
| Community Tech (also linking to meta:) | ☑ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☑ on meta: |
| Discovery | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Communications | ☑ |
| Editing | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Contact | ☑ |
| Collaboration | ☑ | ☑ on /Team subpage | ☑ | "Team documents" on /Team subpage | ☑ on /Team subpage |
| Language | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Contact us | ☑ under #Developers |
| Multimedia | ☑ | ☑ | ☒ | Community | ☒ |
| Parsing | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Contacting us | ☑ |
| VisualEditor | ☑ | ☒ | ☑ | Documentation | ☑ |
| Fundraising Tech | ☑ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☑ |
| Reading | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Communications | ☑ |
| Mobile Apps | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Get Involved | ☑ |
| Reading Infrastructure | ☑ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☑ |
| Architecture | ☒ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☒ |
| Analytics | ☑ | ☑ | ☒ | --- | ☑ |
| Release Engineering | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | --- | ☑ |
| Services | ☒ | ☑ | ☑ | Contact the team | ☑ |
| Tech Operations | ☑ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☑ |
| Performance | ☑ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☑ |
| Research | ☑ | ☑ (listing individuals) | ☑ | Resources | ☑ |
| Research and Data | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Contacts | ☑ |
| Design Research | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Contacts | ☑ |
| Security | ☒ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☒ |
| Community Engagement | ☒ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☒ |
| Community Advocacy / Support & Safety | ☑ | ☑ | ☒ | --- | ☒ |
| Developer Relations | ☑ | ☒ | ☑ | --- | ☑ |
| Community Liaison | ☑ | ☑ | ☑ | Contacting us | ☑ |
| Community Resources | ☑ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☑ under "See Also" |
| Learning and Evaluation | ☒ | ☒ | ☒ | --- | ☒ |
| Wikipedia Education Program | ☑ | ☑ | ☒ | Get involved | ☒ |
| The Wikipedia Library | ☑ | ☑ | ☒ | Get in touch | ☑ |
I could also create a new Template (for each Team) if Feedback template is not what we want to use.
An unique would be better than have one template for each team/project. That would help to T121500: Unify product documentation for users to make it easier to share, translate and edit.
Design speaking, I advice to have this template as a column, like infoboxes. Banners are mostly for warnings.
I recommend to focus on teams here. Project templates is a different topic, there are a couple being used and then there is the one we started prototyping last year (in relation to a TCG task that I cannot find).
As of 2023, it seems that WMF's ERC working group has been working on a template which is currently supported only internally in WMF's officewiki.
However, there might be efforts going on by the WMF Communications team (as far as I have been told).
It's reported on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Movement_Communications/Meta-Wiki_presence
I'm marking this ticked as resolved since that work isn't reported here.