Hi, Rui.
Nothing to pardon. I'd have been asking that question myself not too
awfully long ago. :)
Occasionally, staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation or other groups,
such as chapters, go on IRC to chat with members of the communities that
work on Wikipedia and the other projects we
Thanks Maggie
I am a langugage person - speak a number of them, have a passion for
linguistics, etymology and philology. I had understood that it was some
kind of meeting, but was naturally curious as to why it should be called
office hours.
Thanks for explaining, but it still leaves puzzled to
Rui Correia, 26/01/2013 14:36:
I am a langugage person - speak a number of them, have a passion for
linguistics, etymology and philology. I had understood that it was some
kind of meeting, but was naturally curious as to why it should be called
office hours.
Thanks for explaining, but it still
I don't know if it's just an american school thing but I know the term from
my professors (and before that some high school teachers) who had 'office
hours' which were set hours when they could be guaranteed to be in their
office without other meetings/commitments so that you could just drop by
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for explaining, but it still leaves puzzled to call a meeting
office hours, when something less arcane would do - like IRC-Chat,
Wiki-Chat, Wiki-Miti, Wiki-gether Rendez-VouWiki, etc etc .
I just took a
That makes more sense - but to turn that into a noun (we are having office
hours on Tuesday, is stretching the borders of everything language.
What next? we are having **Car Park** on Saturday to denote the sort of
informal discussions that carry on after a meeting as peole head for their
cars?
On Jan 26, 2013 1:55 PM, Rui Correia correia@gmail.com wrote:
That makes more sense - but to turn that into a noun (we are having
office
hours on Tuesday, is stretching the borders of everything language.
It makes perfect sense to me. It's a particular period of time that is
spent in an
Dear all,
after a long period of discussions and clarifications, we are now
finally starting our search for a Secretary-General to serve the
Chapters Association.
Please distribute to following text to as many of your contacts,
mailing-lists and networks as possible.
Thank you very much,
The English have been known to be at home for similar purposes.
- Original Message -
From: Rui Correia correia@gmail.com
To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Office hours
That makes more
As a reminder, this is still scheduled for next Monday at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours.
Best regards,
Bence
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Gayle Karen Young gyo...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hello!
I'll be doing an open office hours on IRC at #wikimedia-office on January
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