can you stop them from wikipedia from blocking please > Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:03:17 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected] > Subject: [Wikipedia-l] IRC Group Contacts Rearrangements > > Wikimedia IRC community, > > I invite you to read the following announcement and then, if you wish > to discuss it, join us on meta at > <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:IRC/Group_Contacts/Noticeboard>. > > I am pleased to announce that the IRC Group Contacts team has been > changed over to a new group with a strong manifesto. James Forrester, > previously chair of the group, has stepped down due to real life > commitments inhibiting him from being as active as he once was. On > behalf of everyone who uses IRC I'd like to thank him for all the work > he has put into the role, and personally I thank him for his guidance > while I was deputy IRC Group Contact in fulfilling the role as best as > possible; it was invaluable advice. > > With James leaving the post of chair, I have taken on this role and I > now have three new deputies: Casey Brown [[m:User:Cbrown1023]] kibble > on IRC, Filip Maljkovic [[m:User:Dungodung]] dungodung on IRC, and > Ryan [[m:User:Rjd0060]] Rjd0060 on IRC. James and I, with the > involvement of these three and a small team of other IRC > representatives and functionaries, chose these three as people we know > and trust enough to be able to work with, and as users who we feel > suit the Group Contact role well, and of course who have the time and > motivation to carry out the job. > > What is the role of the Group Contact, then, that I have just > mentioned? We have set this down for ourselves far more rigorously > than before. Over late 2008 to early 2009 the levels of service from > James and I have been very poor compared to what is rightly expected > by the community - we appreciate that things have been poor. So the > new group has come up with ways of trying to engage with everyone > involved in IRC more. We intend to try to touch base with our Channel > Contacts significantly more often, first by encouraging them to join > us in #wikimedia-ops (#wikimedia-irc has been closed and redirected to > -ops to try and centralise discussion). They already do a great job > but we feel they could benefit from greater support from the Group > Contacts. We intend to be around more to be involved in discussions, > but we are going to try and remain laid back in terms of using > authority directly: the fact that power is delegated to channel > contacts and their operator teams, we feel, is an important part of > IRC running smoothly. > > On a technical note, I am in fact the only Group Contact recognised by > freenode at the moment to perform technical actions like the setting > of cloaks and taking over of inactive channels. We hope that freenode > will get the other contacts approved soon but we have no ETA on this > and the queue is roughly four years long. We have in the past received > special treatment for being a large project on the network, but we > haven't been told there's any reason why we'd get this this time. So > for the moment please be patient while technical GC work is funnelled > by the whole team to me. Our requests for the other GCs to be > recognised have, however, been submitted into the queue. > > On another technical note, you may see the nick wmfgc around freenode > - this is an account used to hold GC priviledges, since there are now > many of us who may need access to it. > > We intend to hold a Group Contact Surgery, per [[m:IRC Group > Contacts/Surgeries]], soon in order that issues from the community can > be discussed with other IRC users and contacts around. > > All of the major IRC channel contacts and the IRC Group Contacts can > now be reached on <[email protected]>. > > If you just need to contact a GC there is also > <[email protected]>. > > Sean Whitton [[m:User:Sean Whitton]] seanw on IRC > for the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts > > -- > Sean Whitton / <[email protected]> > OpenPGP KeyID: 0x25F4EAB7 > > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
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