Thanks a lot for your work Amir, this is really wonderful. When organizing online events over the past 6 months, we often had the problem of finding a discussion tool that would be altogether open source, hosted on our own servers, complying to local laws (GDPR for Europe), and having some modern features that are missing on IRC. I think that Mattermost is a great answer to that, and I hope that your efforts will be supported by other volunteers and WMF.
I'm looking forward to experimenting with our instance during upcoming events :) On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 02:01, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations > happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion > groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being > scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those > platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use > proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia > infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit. > > IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic functionalities of > a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia Chat, a mattermost instance > in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have: > * Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline > * Push notification and email notification > * You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others > * Proper support for sharing media > * Two factor authentication > * A proper mobile app support > * Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important) > * Profile pictures > * Ability to ping everyone with @here > * much much more. > > You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone > can > make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher > similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2] > > Some notes: > * This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a group > of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical or > enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily work), drop me a message. > * Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies: https://w.wiki/aQW > * As a result, all messages older than 90 days get automatically deleted. > * As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of discussions, private and public are > covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces: https://w.wiki/AK$ > > Hope that would be useful for you, if you encounter any technical issues, > file a bug in the phabricator. > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite > [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet > > Best > -- > Amir (he/him) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Léa Lacroix Project Manager Community Communication for Wikidata Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 10963 Berlin www.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
