On Aug 2, 2014 6:38 PM, "Michael J. Lowrey" <orangemike@gmail.com> wrote:

IRC is almost embarrassingly old technology; Wikimedia Foundation
projects are the only place I've seen it mentioned in the last five
years or more.


On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:
> We already have #wikipedia-en-help which is remarkably good for a volunteer
> help project. Links to join that IRC channel could be offered in multiple
> places. Other languages may have similar channels.
>
> Pine
>
> On Aug 2, 2014 8:42 AM, "Jeremy Baron" <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 2, 2014 11:01 AM, "LtPowers" <LtPowers_Wiki@rochester.rr.com>
>> wrote:
>> > And then there could be a little chat window allowing real-time
>> > communication while the editor walks through her first edit.
>>
>> [originally didn't realize who you were replying to… also haven't read the
>> whole thread yet]
>>
>> That is technically feasible. Maybe would have new implications for
>> privacy (including WMF privacy policy). Unless the realtime chats were
>> publicly logged. (then same privacy as existing teahouse, etc)
>>
>> Essentially would be a more interactive version of teahouse? (i.e. shorter
>> wait for a reply and you're paired with someone that's known to be available
>> at that moment) would be a part of teahouse?
>>
>> How would you staff it? Shifts?
>>
>> Anyway, that does nothing for the case Kathleen describes. 25 people
>> (20f:5m) in a class and everyone getting that introduction to all things
>> wiki. Then 7 stay active for a year including all the men. (and only 2 of
>> the 20 women)
>>
>> I'm leaning towards thinking we as a community should (for now) focus more
>> on the retention gap than the recruitment gap. Then we're not recruiting
>> people just to (mostly) lose them in a month or two. But would be interested
>> to hear thoughts on that from someone with a more rigorous analysis.
>>
>> -Jeremy (jeremyb)
>>
>> P.S. http://www.onthemedia.org/story/31-race-swap-experiment/
>>
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