[Foundation-l] Proposed guidelines in our IRC channels

[Sean Whitton]

On 13/10/06, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it would be a good idea to set up an international semi-official
> help-channel?
Do you mean for IRC? We currently have #wikipedia, #wikimedia-irc and
#wikimedia-ops. Sorry if this doesn't answer your question :S

S

On 13/10/06, effe iets anders <effeietsanders at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe it would be a good idea to set up an international semi-official
> help-channel? That way channels don't have to be split up, and there is a
> larger chance there will hbe someone. In that channel there could be
> stricter guidelines (I think those are better as rules) and only on-topic
> help-talk. Pages could direct there, with the notice, that if there is
> nobody in a preferred language available, you copuld check the "
> unofficial"  channel #wikipedia-es , #wikipedia-nl etc.
>
> Greetz, lodewijk
>
> 2006/10/13, Damian Finol <damian at igluve.org>:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Like the message I left to James F, a few weeks ago I had a college
> > professor who joined the IRC channel when he needed help (I'm talking
> > about the Spanish Wikipedia channel #wikipedia-es) and the amount of
> > profanity, childish behavior and more led him to tell me "Wikipedia
> > isn't a serious project" which I replied "The IRC Channel is not the
> > same as the Wikipedia" and then he pointed the page at Wikipedia-es
> > where it says to join the channel as "official" support, to which of
> > course I had to concede.
> >
> > I don't think that setting some rules to be followed on the IRC channels
> > is bad, it's upping the quality of the conversations and channels; is
> > not, sometimes stop goofing around, but maybe make it a little more
> > serious, removing profanities and related things.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Damian Finol
> > Maracaibo, Venezuela.
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