On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:17 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Krinkle wrote: >> There's a bot in #wikimedia-toolserver reporting activity on [toolserver-l], >> I'll see if I can get a similar thing going for [wikitech-l]. In which >> channel >> would we want this though ? >> >> I assume #wikimedia-tech although, like Ryan said about dev/ops related, >> perhaps better in #wikimedia-dev (or both?) > > I run the bot you're talking about in #wikimedia-toolserver. Her name is > Reba and she's a fine and mostly reliable lady. > > I don't imagine anyone wants a bot in #wikimedia-tech or #wikimedia-dev. > It's noisy and largely pointless (spamming every reply to a thread about > threatening to rewrite the parser to an IRC channel doesn't help anything or > anyone). We need a better system for (power-)users to report site problems. > Something that doesn't involve a mailing list, but something that likely has > an IRC component (given that most of the ops idle there). A clean web UI --> > IRC system could possibly work, but any system like that is open to abuse > and misuse.
As I wrote in my earlier mail, posting "each new thread subject", that is, when a new thread gets started, on IRC. That would be, what, five new threads per day on average? The channel must be very quiet indeed, if that's considered spam :-) Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
