New subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] , [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

31 Jan 2012

Nikita,

Thanks for your reply.

Here's a list of the Wikimedia community's IRC channels:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC/Channels

In the future, when you have a technical problem with Wikimedia sites,
try visiting one of the IRC channels that the developers and system
administrators use to coordinate their work, such as #wikimedia-tech .

A few of our system administrators are volunteers.  There's an
incomplete and out-of-date list here:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/System_administrators

You asked: "How can I help?"  If you have system administration skills,
you can help by getting a Labs account
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs .  Labs users
talk via the #wikimedia-labs channel on IRC and the labs-l mailing list
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l .  Tasks that new
system administrators can take on are listed here:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs#Proposals

and you can learn about the current architecture of Wikimedia's
operations infrastructure at

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/

However, as I mentioned, the system is still under construction and so
please don't feel discouraged if there's not much you can do yet.

People without system administration skills can help in this particular
situation by learning them, or by spreading the word about Wikimedia
technical opportunities in general.

Thanks!

-- 
Sumana Harihareswara
Volunteer Development Coordinator
Wikimedia Foundation

On 01/31/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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 Hii, Thanks for your
 response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you
 for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have
 volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita
 Belavate.

 On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara
 &lt;sumanah(a)wikimedia.org
> > wrote:
> > On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.orgwrote:
> > nikita belavate &lt;niki8891(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>> > > The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images.
> > The
>> > > system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only
> > one
>> > > person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr.
>> > > Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but
>> > > unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We
tried
>> > > calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then.
> >
> > My sympathies and condolences on this problem!
> >
> > Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into?  If I know more
> > about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage.
> >
> > In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer system
> > administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone is
> > online and available and can help you.  And maybe you can become a
> > sysadmin yourself!  Wikimedia Labs
> > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an effort
> > to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community.  Check it
> > out.  It's in closed beta right now and it is still under construction,
> > but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get one.
> >
> > --
> > Sumana Harihareswara
> > Volunteer Development Coordinator
> > Wikimedia Foundation
> > 

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