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

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