I tried the spam blacklist and looking at recent changes, but the response on meta is still slow.

I'm new to IRC, trying to figure out what various channels are, and get the hang of it. According to Wikipedia, " mIRChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRCis the most popular IRC client on Windows based systems [ *citation needed* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources]." Is this true?

I have looked over the list of channels, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels #wikimedia seems like the place to get hold of foundation/metawiki folks, though I see little activity there.

Also have seen discussion on enwiki about the IRC admin channel, and really don't get it. Are there really any benefits of joining that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/IRC_adm...

And, what do you mean by "!admin"? the admin channel? or is that some IRC command?

I'm generally tech savvy, but perhaps somewhat older than most folks on wikipedia. Trying to find my way on IRC and figure it out is intimidating, as is the discussion on the admins noticeboard. So, apologies if these sound like dumb questions. :)

-Aude

On 1/26/07, Sean Whitton (Xyrael) sean@silentflame.com wrote:

IRC is pretty efficient as !admin will grab people pretty quickly. Alternatively you could use recent changes and look at the folk who seem to be editing quite a bit, and see if they're sysops - it's likely.

However, IRC is definately the best way.

On 1/26/07, Aude audevivere@gmail.com wrote:

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Need assistance from any meta admin available to add two sites to the

spam

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blacklist

See:

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#supermortgagerate.info_an...

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On enwiki, there is a proxy spammer right now, spamming links with an

edit

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summary "Online Forex Trading - Free Practice Account - All Resurse"

For example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Norwest&curid=3346024&diff...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noel_Ahern&curid=1387412&d...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonrecourse_debt&curid=2844943...

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Is there is a faster way to get track down a meta admin? I don't have

IRC

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here and not sure who hangs out there anyway.

Thanks.

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