All freenode network channels which include 'wikimedia' in their name are
nominally under the Wikimedia Foundation's group contacts. In practice they are
'owned' by volunteers who are given the founder flag. (The group contacts only get
involved when a founder disappears and the channel becomes dysfunctional.)
I was involuntarily given the founder flag for #Wikimedia-ca when I mentioned there was no
founder for the channel. (Lesson: in an all-volunteer group, don't point out problems
lest them become *your* problem.) As a member of Wiki Canada, I guess that means control
of the channel has already been given to Wiki Canada.
Amgine
On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:20:09 -0400
Alan Walker <awalker(a)wikimedia.ca> wrote:
On that subject, who currently owns the Wikimedia-ca
channel? Is it
possible to have ownership transferred to the chapter?
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Amgine <amgine(a)wikimedians.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 04:45:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Doc James <jmh649(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > An issue I have with IRC is that I am unable to use it at work. The IT
> > department has blocked access. Some of the conferencing options allow
> > connecting via telephone to address the bandwidth problems. Some of
> > them also offer one month free trials so we can see how it would work
> > for us before we commit money.
> >
> > James
>
> Regarding the limitation of IRC at work; if you can view web pages using
> javascript, there are IRC gateways which will let you use IRC as a web page.
> Here is the url for Wikizine.Org's gateway:
>
http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi It does not yet
> allow access to
irc://irc.freenode.net/Wikimedia-ca, but I can ask to have
> it added.
>
>
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> Amgine <amgine(a)wikimedians.ca>
>
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