[WikiEN-l] Wanted - help desk helpers

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

I would be willing to take on a few questions every once in a while.
If you need some examples of my style. You can check the help desk
questions I've answered so far.

-Mgm

On 6/15/05, sannse <sannse at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> Now that the info-en email address is on the "contact us" pages, the
> amount of mail is increasing, and we need more help.
> 
> We are looking for a long-standing contributor with a good knowledge of
> the English Wikipedia and its policies and procedures.  You should also
> have a working knowledge of other projects.  You need to have infinite
> patience to reply to the same newbie questions time after time, and a
> friendly and helpful style of writing.  Most important is the ability
> not to laugh at people who write to tell us we have a massive security
> hole - an edit link on each page!!!11!.
> 
> Being active on IRC is an advantage - it makes a real difference to be
> able to talk over the tricky ones sometimes.
> 
> Pay is at the usual Wikipedia rate of lots of good feeling and all the
> cookies you can eat.
> 
> Hopefully there will be a big rush of applicants for this wonderful job,
> and I will ask those volunteering to answer a few mails to see if you
> have the style we are looking for.  Jimbo will have the final say though.
> 
> Please mail me directly rather than replying to the list if you are
> interested.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> sannse
> 
> p.s. I lied about the cookies
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