[WikiEN-l] IRC logging, disclosure

[David Gerard]

On 23/05/07, Pedro Sanchez <pdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> As far as I know, all channels starting with #wikipedia- and
> #wikimedia- are official as agreed with freenode, and if it were
> needed, http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_Group_Contacts could take
> control over them


Not quite. From Freenode's side, James and Sean are the official group
contacts. From the WMF's side, IRC is completely unofficial and it
doesn't want anything to do with it.

So James and Sean are independent autocrats of unlimited power over
the Wikimedia domain. Good thing they're sane, really.


> Also http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_channels specifies which
> channels forbid logging, which ones may be logged and which are open


- d.