This page is anoticeboard for current information regarding IRC, generally posted to by theContacts.
I just wanted to let everyone know that applications are now being accepted for Global Ops. If you would like to throw your hat in the ring, please fill out the form in the IRC Ops channel as I can't link it here. Right now there is no deadline on applications. If one does get set, I will notify below. --Amanda (she/her)17:23, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
We currently have a new GC slot open and our team could use some help from another active IRC-savvy person. Therefore, we're inviting you to apply to become aGroup Contact for Wikimedia's IRC channels on Libera. Interested applicants should send their applications to irc-contacts-owner
lists.wikimedia.org by November 8th, 2022. An application should at least include:
On behalf of the GC team,--Az1568 (talk)19:43, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
stwalkerster on IRC),Matthewrb (matthewrbowker on IRC) andAmandaNP (AmandaNP on IRC). --FiliP██20:23, 23 November 2022 (UTC)Hello there, I requested for Wikimedia cloak 60 days ago. Querying with wmopbot, it says, "cloak for Tulsi requested 60 days ago is approved". When messaged one of Libera staffs (el@libera/staff/el on #Libera) to know about the request, she told to ask one of the GCs to check for you as to why it's not been done. it seems not, or we missed one and no longer have records of the request. either way the GC will need to request that we fix it. Could you please take a look on this? — Tulsi 24x707:20, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
I would like to propose a new call for group contacts — I absolutely appreciate and respect that this is a volunteer role (and I thank you all for your tireless commitment to it!), but it seems that there is a stagnation to ourcurrent GCs, and we would be better served by a number of contacts being active members of the Wikimedia community. There are ~30 pending cloak requests, and between four GCs this should not get to the current state of having requests over 60 days old. ~TNT (talk • she/her)11:27, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
At the moment, Snowolf and foks are offline, AlexZ has been idle for over 18 days, and dungodung has been idle for over 2 days. We need another group contact. --MZMcBride (talk)16:28, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
We are pleased to announce that the new Group Contacts areFox andCharitwo (foks andc orcharitwo respectively on IRC). We would like to thank all other candidates for submitting their applications and to apologize for making this announcement belatedly. On behalf of the GC team,FiliP██22:08, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
Thank you to all candidates for submitting their applications. There has been a bit of a delay in choosing the next group contact, for which we sincerely apologize, as I know several of you have been asking when we will make an announcement! We anticipate that a final selection should be made in February and it will be announced here as soon as the results are available.
On behalf of the GC team,--Az1568 (talk)00:19, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
We currently have a new GC slot open and our team could use some help from another active IRC savvy person. Therefore, we're inviting you to apply to become aGroup Contact for Wikimedia's IRC channels on freenode. Interested applicants should send their applications to irc-contacts-ownerlists.wikimedia.org by January 5th, 2017. An application should at least include:
On behalf of the GC team, --Az1568 (talk)23:01, 22 December 2016 (UTC)
We are pleased to announce that the new Group Contact isAz1568 (AlexZ andAz1568 on IRC). We would like to thank all other candidates for submitting their applications. On behalf of the GC team,FiliP██22:16, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
Since we've currently only one active and two moderately active Group Contacts, our team could use some help from another active IRC savvy person. Therefore, we're inviting you to apply to become aGroup Contact for Wikimedia's IRC channels on freenode. Interested applicants should send their applications to irc-contacts-ownerlists.wikimedia.org by January 15, 2016. Application should at least include:
On behalf of the GC team, -Barrastalk22:20, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
We are pleased to announce that the new Group Contact isSnowolf (QueenOfFrance andSnowolf on IRC). After some deliberation, we have finally decided to choose Snowolf, as he is an experienced and trusted user and we think he is going to fit in the team nicely. We would also like to thank all other candidates for submitting their applications.
On behalf of the GC team, -Barrastalk18:13, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
With only one active, one moderately active and one currently inactive Group Contact, our team could use some help from another active IRC savvy person. Therefore, we're announcing aRequest for a new Group Contact. Interested applicants should send their applications to irc-contacts-ownerlists.wikimedia.org by the end of the month. Application should at least include:
On behalf of the GC team, -Barrastalk19:57, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Today we got the ownership of #wikidata and also #wikivoyage namespaces on IRC. That means we are also able to give cloaks for those projects (wikidata/ and wikivoyage/). The request page has already been updated.
On behalf of the group contacts, -Barrastalk16:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello everyone. Today Casey resigned as group contact and chair of our group on freenode. He gave over the chair toFilip. So we are currently three group contacts.
On behalf of the group contacts, -Barrastalk16:39, 22 October 2012 (UTC)
Hello all! We are very happy to announce that we just filled the last position for a group contact and this new volunteer isPeterSymonds (PeterSymonds on IRC). He is a very experienced user and IRC operator. We think he will fit great in our group.
On behalf of the group contacts, -Barras19:03, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
We are pleased to announce that the new Group Contact isBarras (Barras on IRC). After much deliberation, we have finally decided to choose Barras, as he is an experienced and trusted user and we think he is going to fit in the team nicely. We would also like to thank all other candidates for submitting their applications and we would like to apologize for not making this announcement sooner.
On behalf of the GC team,FiliP██22:13, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
With only 2 moderately active Group Contacts on board, our team could use some help from another active IRC savvy person. Therefore, we're announcing aRequest for a new Group Contact. Interested applicants should send their applications to irc-contacts-ownerlists.wikimedia.org by Sunday, October 16, 2011. Application should include:
On behalf of the GC team,FiliP██20:36, 6 October 2011 (UTC)
| “ | I’m not a very active Wikimedian at the moment (though hopefully someday I shall return) and so the time has come to handover my chairship of the IRC Group Contacts. I am ceding it to Casey Brown, but this is just a formality, and really it is both Filip and Casey who I leave in charge of Wikimedia’s IRC presence. I imagine that they may well want to make some changes to how things are done on IRC and they have my blessing in this, even if I might disagree with the specifics. It has been a great pleasure to work with them both for the past few years, and with James F. before that, in running our IRC channels. IRC is not important, and it should remain unimportant, so I don’t expect most people to appreciate this, but it has been good to solve problems together and I think we all learnt a lot from the experience, and, hopefully, kept IRC useful for everyone else. | „ |
original post on foundation-l --FiliP██10:53, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
We're looking for a developer to create and maintain a new cloak request system. For details, please seeIRC/Cloaks/System or get in touch with agroup contact. -Rjd006013:33, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
It has been just over 3 months since the new group contact team wasannounced. Since then, we've been busy working on a number of projects; most of which are “behind the scenes”. It is important to keep a certain level of transparency to show that we are actually accomplishing things.
The role of the group contacts is to liaise with freenode's staff to ensure a good relationship with those that provide out IRC services, to help with the smooth running of IRC by encouraging good practices on the part of channel operators, to deal with channels left without operators, and to assigncloaks. They try to avoid getting involved in the running of individual channels.
We are available on IRC in the channel #wikimedia-ops and via e-mail:irc-contactslists.wikimedia.org for most issues,irc-contacts-ownerlists.wikimedia.org for matters in which you would prefer channel contacts not to see your posting, as this goes to only the GCs.
Our nicks are dungodung, kibble, Rjd0060 and seanw.
For the group contacts,Rjd006017:05, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
As an update to the note below, Casey, Filip and myself (Ryan) are now recognized by freenode. For the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts,Rjd006021:35, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
| “ | Wikimedia IRC community, I am pleased to announce that the IRC Group Contacts team has been changed over to a new group with a strong manifesto. James Forrester, previously chair of the group, has stepped down due to real life commitments inhibiting him from being as active as he once was. On behalf of everyone who uses IRC I'd like to thank him for all the work he has put into the role, and personally I thank him for his guidance while I was deputy IRC Group Contact in fulfilling the role as best as possible; it was invaluable advice. With James leaving the post of chair, I have taken on this role and I now have three new deputies:
James and I, with the involvement of these three and a small team of other IRC representatives and functionaries, chose these three as people we know and trust enough to be able to work with, and as users who we feel suit the Group Contact role well, and of course who have the time and motivation to carry out the job. What is the role of the Group Contact, then, that I have just mentioned? We have set this down for ourselves far more rigorously than before. Over late 2008 to early 2009 the levels of service from James and I have been very poor compared to what is rightly expected by the community - we appreciate that things have been poor. So the new group has come up with ways of trying to engage with everyone involved in IRC more. We intend to try to touch base with our Channel Contacts significantly more often, first by encouraging them to join us in#wikimedia-opsconnect (#wikimedia-ircconnect has been closed and redirected to -ops to try and centralise discussion). They already do a great job but we feel they could benefit from greater support from the Group Contacts. We intend to be around more to be involved in discussions, but we are going to try and remain laid back in terms of using authority directly: the fact that power is delegated to channel contacts and their operator teams, we feel, is an important part of IRC running smoothly. On a technical note, you may see the nick wmfgc around freenode - this is an account used to hold GC priviledges, since there are now many of us who may need access to it. We intend to hold a Group Contact Surgery, perIRC Group Contacts/Surgeries, soon in order that issues from the community can be discussed with other IRC users and contacts around. All of the major IRC channel contacts and the IRC Group Contacts can now be reached onirc-contacts If you just need to contact a GC there is alsoirc-contacts-owner Sean WhittonUser:Sean Whitton seanw on IRC for the Wikimedia IRC Group Contacts | „ |
The above is in the process of being posted to the usual mailing lists. Please circulate. —Sean Whitton /20:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
The group contacts now have control over these channel and cloak namespaces:
#wikimedia, #wikimedia-* namespace & wikimedia/*#wikipedia, #wikipedia-* namespace & wikipedia/*#wikiversity, #wikiversity-* namespace & wikiversity/*#wikispecies, #wikispecies-* namespace & wikispecies/*#wikinews, #wikinews-* namespace & wikinews/*#wikisource, #wikisource-* namespace & wikisource/*#wikibooks, #wikibooks-* namespace & wikibooks/*#wikiquote, #wikiquote-* namespace & wikiquote/*#wiktionary, #wiktionary-* namespace & wiktionary/*#mediawiki, #mediawiki-* namespacewikimedia-commons/*
Cloaks are now being processed as normal at last. —Sean Whitton /17:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
At present (since January 2008), only the #wikimedia-* and #wikipedia-* channel namespaces are under contact control, and only wikimedia/ and wikipedia/ cloaks can be set. We are waiting on freenode to redo our paperwork with us so that we can fully control all project namespaces. —Sean Whitton /20:41, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
