[Foundation-l] #wikipedia IRC channel guidelines review

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 05:03:19 UTC 2007


On 7/31/07, Mark Ryan <ultrablue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31/07/07, GerardM <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mark,
> > There are Wikimedia affiliated IRC channels on Freenode.
> > Thanks for getting even the basics wrong.
> > Thanks,
> >      GerardM
>
> This seems to be a bit nitpicky. I meant to say Wikipedia, and did.
> I'm sure you know me well enough to realise I know the difference
> between Wikipedia and Wikimedia.
>
> I invited people from all Wikipedia (yes, pedia) IRC channels to the
> discussion, because #wikipedia is the big central channel for all the
> smaller (language-specific etc) Wikipedia channels, so they too have a
> legitimate cause for complaint if #wikipedia is not being run well.
> Would you rather I not invite people to give their opinions there??
>

I genuinely do not wish to be rude, but frankly, you are delusional if
you think *any* of the #wikipedia-* channel regulars considers
#wikipedia their central channel.

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Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]



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