On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 10:28 +0200, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
Because Sean is one of our two IRC group contacts for Wikimedia (with James_F), member of Freenode staff (you know, this network you are using and whose rules you have accepted a long time ago).
Can we consider changing the network then, if our community and FreeNode can't get along?
Admin on which project ? #wikipedia is supposed to be about the global Wikipedia project, if you wish to find admins of a dedicated project, you had better join the dedicated channel (I guess your sentence was English-language-Wikipedia-centric, so in that case the dedicated channel is #wikipedia-en, just like there is #wikipedia-fr or #wikipedia-de).
Usually admins on en.wikipedia. Several people used #wikipedia to contact me for help, as I'm an admin on sh.wikipedia, and our channel is mostly empty. It's easier to have a centralized place where people can both direct you and help you.
Because someone had to do it. Sean was only bold enough to dare doing it.
I am bold enough to go and reconstruct AfD on en.wikipedia. But I don't think changing the rules and desysoping all the admins that took part in it would be a way to go.
Sean, I think you should make it publicly clear what the problems were, so that people really understand why your action was needed.
So, Sean should tell us why the channel we were in had problems?
Dejan Čabrilo