[Foundation-l] Promoting #wikimedia-admin

[Casey Brown]

Cbrown1023 = kibble ;-)

On Jan 11, 2008 8:19 PM, mike.lifeguard <mike.lifeguard at gmail.com> wrote:
> To complement an email that was sent to the stewards' list, here's a call
> for bureaucrats to promote #wikimedia-admin when giving +sysop. The channel
> is for cross-wiki coordination; that means dealing with cross-wiki vandalism
> and spam as well as help with the tools for new sysops that may not have
> someone readily available on their home wiki.
>
> To gain access: any member of #wikimedia-admin can invite you (temporary)
> and an op can give you an invite exemption (allows you to enter whenever you
> want). Ops are: Az1568, Cbrown1023, Connel, Pathoschild (slavie), Shanel and
> Slowking Man.
>
> [[m:Template:Invite]] is a template (very new, so it may change) that you
> can import and localize to let new admins know of this channel's existence,
> what it's for and how to gain access.
>
> While there are currently only ~15 admins in the channel, as more join, the
> channel will be more effective, especially in terms of fighting cross-wiki
> vandalism.
>
> We currently have several languages represented; we hope more will be
> available as admins join the channel. English, French, Spanish, Swedish,
> Portuguese, Serbian, and German all have at least one speaker at 2 or
> higher.
>
> In the past, this channel has been dormant, nay, completely abandoned. It's
> my hope that we can turn this into the useful tool for cross-wiki
> coordination it was intended to be.
>
>
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