Hello Everyone!
Hope you're all doing great? The AWMD core team has had some requests and internal discussions about the migration from #wiki-dev-africa to #wikimedia-dev-africa since it's an official Wikimedia project and has to be in the Wikimedia IRC channel namespace. To understand what this means, see this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels.
Charitwo https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charitwo who is a member of the IRC Contact group for Wikimedia Foundation filed a request about us considering the migration since Wikimedia Foundation owns the #wikimedia-* namespace, so the AWMD core team reconsidered to move.
From now, anyone trying to join the old channel (#wiki-dev-africa) will be
redirected to the new channel automatically but it would be good to note that this will only last for 60 days. So do well to practice joining the new channel (by default) which is: *#wikimedia-dev-africa.* Also, all bots which were attached to the old channel to help us track activities, we'll patch it to redirect to the new channel.
We've solved this problem in such a way that hitches has been greatly minimized. It's usually not an easy one :) In addition, we also apologize for any inconveniences this would have caused you! Have a blissful day!
*At your service,* *AWMD Core Team*
*Felix Nartey - Project Manager* *Derick Alangi - Technical Lead* *Perside Rosalie - Program Coordinator*
Hello,
Thanks for letting us know. I think this decision totally makes sense.
Cheers,
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 12:48 PM, Alangi Derick alangi.derick@wikipedia.de wrote:
Hello Everyone!
Hope you're all doing great? The AWMD core team has had some requests and internal discussions about the migration from #wiki-dev-africa to #wikimedia-dev-africa since it's an official Wikimedia project and has to be in the Wikimedia IRC channel namespace. To understand what this means, see this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels.
Charitwo https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Charitwo who is a member of the IRC Contact group for Wikimedia Foundation filed a request about us considering the migration since Wikimedia Foundation owns the #wikimedia-* namespace, so the AWMD core team reconsidered to move.
From now, anyone trying to join the old channel (#wiki-dev-africa) will be redirected to the new channel automatically but it would be good to note that this will only last for 60 days. So do well to practice joining the new channel (by default) which is: *#wikimedia-dev-africa.* Also, all bots which were attached to the old channel to help us track activities, we'll patch it to redirect to the new channel.
We've solved this problem in such a way that hitches has been greatly minimized. It's usually not an easy one :) In addition, we also apologize for any inconveniences this would have caused you! Have a blissful day!
*At your service,* *AWMD Core Team*
*Felix Nartey - Project Manager* *Derick Alangi - Technical Lead* *Perside Rosalie - Program Coordinator*
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