[Toolserver-l] An IRC gateway

[Sean Whitton]

Similar - the only proper difference (aside from making it look nicer
;)) will be that it will only have Wikimedia channels where his has
places like ##philosophy.

It'd be good if a ts admin could weigh in on this :-)

Thanks,

Sean

On 24/05/07, Casey Brown <cbrown1023 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Sounds like a great idea, Sean!
>
> Based on my interpretation of the big bad RULES
> (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Toolserver/Rules) and my understanding of
> what you are to do:
>         1. It is definitely related to the Wikimedia Foundation (obviously).
>         2. Laws... well, I think we can trust you not to break any (and I
> can trust you to identify and find applicable laws). :)
>         3. "other requests to other sites without permission from the
> operator of that site," You've already stated that you will handle
> communication with the Freenode Staff (as you do any many occasions almost
> daily!)
>         4. You obviously already subscribe. :)
>         5. I don't think you are installing a web application...
> ...
> The other items are either non-applicable, or already taken care of.  It
> looks like this would be fine (but that is just my opinion!).
>
> Quick question, though: will this be similar, identical to, or completely
> different from Walter's Wikizine one?
>
> Casey Brown
> Cbrown1023
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:toolserver-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sean Whitton
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:53 PM
> To: toolserver-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Toolserver-l] An IRC gateway
>
> I don't know if this has been discussed before, but would we consider
> running a CGI:IRC gateway on the toolserver? I'm not sure how it fits
> with the rules so I thought I'd ask. There is already a java client
> somewhere but this runs off the user's PC, so is of course allowed.
>
> The advantage of CGI:IRC is that it will run on almost any machine,
> without any security warnings etc. that java is good at throwing up. I
> think that a lot of users would find it a very useful to get onto IRC
> which is something to generally be encouraged. We can easily restrict
> it down to just Wikimedia channels.
>
> Walter of Wikizine currently runs http://chat.wikizine.org/ but I
> thought it would make sense to have it on the toolserver, which would
> help him in terms of resources.
>
> Thoughts from users and admins?
>
> (dibs on doing this if we say yes, since I've done one of these before
> and it was my idea :D)
> (also, we'd need to get authorisation from freenode staff, but I can
> handle this)
>
> Sean
>
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