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 support.[1] Sometimes there is a set agenda, if there is something that needs particular focus, but often - as with today's meeting - there is not. It's just an opportunity to ask questions of staff (or other groups) and to learn a bit from the questions that others ask and the answers to those questions. It's generally pretty informal. If you can't attend the session but are interested in what takes place in it, you can still review the logs after the fact. These are placed on Meta.[2] Maggie [1] If you aren't familiar with IRC (Internet Relay Chat), there is information about how to use it at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC and http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#How_to_participate [2] The logs can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs To read them, click on the date of the session in the list. :) On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Rui Correia <correia.rui(a)gmail.com> wrote: 18:30:00 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Upcoming_office_hoursfor -- Maggie Dennis Community Liaison WikimediaFoundation.org _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l

Rui Correia, 26/01/2013 14:36: I am a langugage person - speak a number of them, have a passion for I think the idea is/was that the "mysterious WMF office" opens for everyone to "visit" and chat, through IRC. Nemo ______________________________**_________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.**org &lt;Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l<https://lists…

That makes more sense - but to turn that into a noun (we are having

hours" on Tuesday", is stretching the borders of everything language.

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 .....