Now that the info-en email address is on the "contact us" pages, the amount of mail is increasing, and we need more help.
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.
Thanks,
sannse
p.s. I lied about the cookies
I would be willing to take on a few questions every once in a while. If you need some examples of my style. You can check the help desk questions I've answered so far.
-Mgm
On 6/15/05, sannse sannse@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Now that the info-en email address is on the "contact us" pages, the amount of mail is increasing, and we need more help.
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.
Thanks,
sannse
p.s. I lied about the cookies _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
I would be willing to help out with the emails. I have been a en.wikipedia contributor for a couple of years, am an administrator, and spend most of my life in front of a computer ;) Love the chance to help out a bit more.
-Matt (User:Morven)
Many thanks to all those who replied. We decided to choose the first two who applied as there were so many good people to choose from. We may expand the team further in the future (almost certainly if the workload keeps going up) but for now, we have added JamesF and Mindspillage.
Thanks again to everyone who volunteered
--sannse
sannse wrote:
Now that the info-en email address is on the "contact us" pages, the amount of mail is increasing, and we need more help.
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.
Thanks,
sannse
p.s. I lied about the cookies _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
The info-en email address is getting ever more traffic, and once again, we are in need of new volunteers to answer these mails, which are dealt with using [[OTRS]], the Open-source Ticket Request System. Sannse is currently away, so please reply to Kat mindspillage@gmail.com if you are interested in helping.
An alternative, for questions that can be asked publicly, is the new helpdesk mailing list, http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/helpdesk-l which is open to anyone to subscribe to and ask or answer questions.
As sannse wrote in the last call for help on June 15:
"Now that the info-en email address is on the "contact us" pages, the amount of mail is increasing, and we need more help.
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."
(She lied about the cookies)
Angela.
On 9/22/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
(She lied about the cookies)
Angela.
Unlike Sannse, I won't pretend to offer cookies... if you'd ever seen my baking you'd agree that it's probably better if I don't! Besides, they get stale in the mail. :-)
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]]
-- "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." --Douglas Adams
Kat Walsh wrote:
On 9/22/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
(She lied about the cookies)
Angela.
Unlike Sannse, I won't pretend to offer cookies... if you'd ever seen my baking you'd agree that it's probably better if I don't! Besides, they get stale in the mail. :-)
Some computer chip cookies are hard to digest. :-)
Ec
On 9/22/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
The info-en email address is getting ever more traffic, and once again, we are in need of new volunteers to answer these mails, which are dealt with using [[OTRS]], the Open-source Ticket Request System. Sannse is currently away, so please reply to Kat mindspillage@gmail.com if you are interested in helping.
A big thank you to everyone who volunteered; Kelly Martin, Nick Boalch (Ngb), and Tony Sidaway will be joining us.
Everyone else's name is still in consideration in case we need more help, so you're not safe yet! Thanks again.
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]] -- "There was a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler's mind." --Douglas Adams