On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:17 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Krinkle wrote:
There's a bot in #wikimedia-toolserver reporting activity on [toolserver-l], I'll see if I can get a similar thing going for [wikitech-l]. In which channel would we want this though ?
I assume #wikimedia-tech although, like Ryan said about dev/ops related, perhaps better in #wikimedia-dev (or both?)
I run the bot you're talking about in #wikimedia-toolserver. Her name is Reba and she's a fine and mostly reliable lady.
I don't imagine anyone wants a bot in #wikimedia-tech or #wikimedia-dev. It's noisy and largely pointless (spamming every reply to a thread about threatening to rewrite the parser to an IRC channel doesn't help anything or anyone). We need a better system for (power-)users to report site problems. Something that doesn't involve a mailing list, but something that likely has an IRC component (given that most of the ops idle there). A clean web UI --> IRC system could possibly work, but any system like that is open to abuse and misuse.
As I wrote in my earlier mail, posting "each new thread subject", that is, when a new thread gets started, on IRC. That would be, what, five new threads per day on average? The channel must be very quiet indeed, if that's considered spam :-)
Cheers, Magnus