oh, by the way Mark...if you are the owner of several channels and take care of migration and information for all, would you possibly write a short note on the implications on meta (something like, "no worry, no changes of nicknames", "this is a change of freenode policy not of wikimedia foundation" etc...), so that each time there is a migration, you can point out the new channel to that note ?
I suggest this only because I see the perplexity of french irc users this morning ;-) Might save time not to explain it each time ...
Cheers
Ant
Anthere wrote:
Hiya,
When spanish editors contacted me yesterday about their own channel registered by an unknown person, I checked the french channel as well, and was glad to see you registered it Mark. You could have stayed our owner you know ;-)
Thanks Mark Ryan wrote:
Hi Anthere. I read this naming policy a few months ago and registered #wikipedia-fr and #wikipedia-de on behalf of those channels, and sent memos to their existing channel contacts telling them of this. Would you like me to set it over to you? Or just unregister them so you can re-register them as you see fit?
~Mark Ryan
On 10/9/05, Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Hello;
I post it here, though it is not restricted to wikipedia. But many read this list, so that might do.
Freenode is changing is channel naming policy.
The channel names beforehand #xx.wikipedia will be changed in #wikipedia-xx
Some people already reported that some of these channels (like the spanish one) were already registered by unknown people... or people who have left the projects.
If this is the case of your language channel, please do together agree on a new owner, then please contact Fennec to make the change : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fennec
Fennec is the contact for freenode.
Thanks
Anthere
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