Hi all,
Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will
be having office hours this Thursday (September 30) at 23:00 UTC
(16:00 PT, 19:00 ET, 01:00 Friday CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
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the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
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Hi all,
Danese Cooper, the "open source diva", and Wikimedia's very own Chief
Technology Officer, will be our guest at office hours on Wednesday, 22
September at 23:00UTC (16:00 Pacific, 19:00 Eastern, 01:00 Thursday
CET). This is a great opportunity to spend time with Danese and talk
about her exciting plans for the future of Wikimedia's technological
infrastructure.
You can access the chat by going to https://webchat.freenode.net/ and
filling in a username and the channel name (#wikimedia-office). You
may be prompted to click through a security warning. It's fine.
Another option is http://chat.wikizine.org.
As always, the chat will be logged and put on meta for those who are
unable to join.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Philippe
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi all,
Sue Gardner, the Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, will
be having office hours this Thursday (September 16) at 17:00 UTC
(10:00 PT, 13:00 ET, 19:00 CEST) on IRC in #wikimedia-office.
If you do not have an IRC client, there are two ways you can come chat
using a web browser: First, using the Wikizine chat gateway at
<http://chatwikizine.memebot.com/cgi-bin/cgiirc/irc.cgi>. Type a
nickname, select irc.freenode.net from the top menu and
#wikimedia-office from the following menu, then login to join.
Or, you can access Freenode by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/,
typing in the nickname of your choice and choosing wikimedia-office as
the channel. You may be prompted to click through a security warning,
which you can click to accept.
Please feel free to forward (and translate!) this email to any other
relevant email lists you happen to be on.
____________________
Philippe Beaudette
Head of Reader Relations
Wikimedia Foundation
philippe(a)wikimedia.org
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the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Fred Bauder, 02/09/2010 20:37:
> Actually, we could routinely use twitter more, asking for input. With the
> right searchable keywords we might regularly attract both help with the
> specific problem and new editors. That could become a regular routine.
> Obviously asking for help in such a forum could also attract cranks and
> axe grinders too.
aNobii users helped me to find sources of several quotations on
it.wikiquote. I posted requests as a "find the source" contest on
biggest single-author groups named after authors with unsourced
quotations, but you could also use biggest general groups (which have
thousands of members), possibly organizing a contest with their founder,
or send private messages to users who have books from that author. I had
no time to try this, though.
Nemo