please
El sáb., 29 de ago. de 2020 a la(s) 21:00, Amir Sarabadani (
ladsgroup(a)gmail.com) escribió:
Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related
discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and
many more. Besides
being
> scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those
> platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use
> proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia
> infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit.
>
> IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic
of
a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia
Chat, a mattermost
instance
> in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have:
> * Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline
> * Push notification and email notification
> * You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others
> * Proper support for sharing media
> * Two factor authentication
> * A proper mobile app support
> * Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important)
> * Profile pictures
> * Ability to ping everyone with @here
> * much much more.
>
> You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to
https://chat.wmcloud.org,
anyone
> > can
> > make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher
> > similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2]
> >
> > Some notes:
> > * This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a
> group
> > of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical