[Foundation-l] Status of cloak requests

[Michael Bimmler]

I think the position of the foundation was and it that it does not
want to get officially involved with IRC (nota: the Group Contacts
were not appointed by the foundation, they act as representatives [or
benevolent dictators...] of the Wikimedia IRC community).

Thus, I presume the office won't want to make an official request to
Freenode, the only people who could do this are James and Sean.

Further, As Sean is also a Freenode staffer, I trust that he knows
what is going on and what we can expect of Freenode at the moment and
what not. I doubt whether any official request would speed matters
up...

Michael

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Newyorkbrad (Wikipedia)
<newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am becoming concerned by this situation. Someone, from the Office if
>  necessary, should contact Freenode at a high level and have them
>  prioritize this matter. Because IP's can be easily harvested when
>  people go into the IRC channels uncloaked, this is a user privacy
>  issue and needs to be resolved at the earliest possible time.
>
>  Newyorkbrad
>
>
>
>  On 2/26/08, Sean Whitton <sean at silentflame.com> wrote:
>  > Majorly,
>  >
>  > I have the feeling you are ignoring me :)
>  >
>  > The issue is that freenode are unable to sort us out thus we can make
>  > no progress. If freenode were more available, I could set all the
>  > cloaks in the queue. But this is totally beyond our control, and this
>  > is why I ask for your patience.
>  >
>  > Setting cloaks does not take long for me and I can definately do it.
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > Sean
>  >
>  > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  > > On 25/02/2008, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com>
>  > wrote:
>  > >  > >  And in addition, I've had three cloaks before. One of them took a
>  > >  > while, and
>  > >  > >  I had to resend it, but overall they were done quite smoothly. Other
>  > >  > people
>  > >  > >  have not had such a good experience. Still, I don't see why we can't
>  > >  > appoint
>  > >  > >  an additional contact(s) who isn't almost always afk on IRC and on a
>  > >  > >  Wikibreak.
>  > >  >
>  > >  >
>  > >  > That's fine, I don't see a problem with having more contacts,
>  > >  > especially if those additional contacts can make a more-persistent
>  > >  > online presence. I've volunteered for it, I'm sure other people would
>  > >  > be willing to volunteer for it as well.
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Who do we need to talk to about volunteering for this?
>  > >  >
>  > >  >
>  > >  > --Andrew Whitworth
>  > >  >
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>  > >  Andrew, I think the only person who we can talk to is Sean. As I said
>  > this
>  > >  has been brought up in the past. Somewhere in this list's archives. Sean
>  > >  simply said no more were needed, and he was handling it. I have a feeling
>  > he
>  > >  will say the same again.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  --
>  > >  Alex (Majorly)
>  > >
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