[WikiEN-l] Help desk volunteers wanted!

[Kat Walsh]

The good news: Wikipedia is more popular than ever. The bad news:
we're getting buried in mail! Looking for clueful and friendly people
to staff the help desk once more. (Also, if you indicated you were
interested before, please reply to me again so I know if you're still
interested.)

I don't think I can improve upon sannse's original description, so:

> We are looking for a long-standing contributor with a good knowledge of
> the English Wikipedia and its policies and procedures.  You should also
> have a working knowledge of other projects.  You need to have infinite
> patience to reply to the same newbie questions time after time, and a
> friendly and helpful style of writing.  Most important is the ability
> not to laugh at people who write to tell us we have a massive security
> hole - an edit link on each page!!!11!.
>
> Being active on IRC is an advantage - it makes a real difference to be
> able to talk over the tricky ones sometimes.
>
> Pay is at the usual Wikipedia rate of lots of good feeling and all the
> cookies you can eat.
>
> Hopefully there will be a big rush of applicants for this wonderful job,
> and I will ask those volunteering to answer a few mails to see if you
> have the style we are looking for.  Jimbo will have the final say though.
>
> Please mail me directly rather than replying to the list if you are
> interested.

-Kat
[[User:Mindspillage]]

p.s. We're lying about the cookies.

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