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, "
mIRC<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC>is 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_ad…
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(a)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(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Need assistance from any meta admin available to
add two sites to the
spam
blacklist
See:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Spam_blacklist#supermortgagerate.info_a…
On enwiki, there is a proxy spammer right now, spamming links with an
edit
summary "Online Forex Trading - Free
Practice Account - All Resurse"
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Norwest&curid=3346024&dif…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noel_Ahern&curid=1387412&…
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonrecourse_debt&curid=284494…
> Is there is a faster way to get track
down a meta admin? I don't have
IRC
> here and not sure who hangs out there anyway.
> Thanks.
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