Hi Fae, I'm happy to keep IRC for remote assistance during editathons. The problem I think is that it is slightly anachronistic and mostly appeals to people who have a slightly more tech background. If we are going to include younger people and those without as much of a tech background, I can't help but feeling it's not going to be ideal for those people. I don't think there's really an ideal single solution to this problem, because different groups will want to use different means of communicating with each other and with staff. Still, I'm happy to try anything out and use a bunch of different methods to see which are more effective at engaging people.
John On 23 August 2016 at 12:39, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: > We set up a page in 2011 for coordinating IRC meetings and used to > have #wikimedia-uk-board for the community to be able to raise > discussion directly with Trustees, so questions could be raised live > during our meetings and there could be discussion about chapter > affairs away from the main channel. See > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Community_IRC_meetings, there was some > discussion about choosing the best communication channels for the > chapter that you can probably find in the board minutes for that time; > the issues are no different today. The transient nature of IRC, and > it's public openness, is a benefit for some users, while the > persistence of posts to Facebook groups along with privacy and closed > groups is preferred by others. > > The most successful past use of the wikimedia-uk channel was when it > was used as live support for edit-a-thons. It was an excellent way to > offer advice for remote contributors, including on-project sysop > support without having to permanently publish questions on-wiki, and > was something we could point to as evidence of not expecting > volunteers to travel across the country for events. > > You may want to update the wiki page for online meetings. I or another > IRC op can add it back to the channel notice if it starts to get > maintained or another page does. > > Keep in mind that similar to this email list, the IRC channel is for > the UK community of Wikimedians, rather than only for Chapter matters > and events. It's worth also noting that it may take a day for someone > to notice a question or comment on IRC, so be prepared for > significantly asynchronous chat and it's worth staying logged in for > days at a time if you expect to have a discussion. > > Thanks, > Fae > > > On 22 August 2016 at 18:04, John Lubbock <john.lubb...@wikimedia.org.uk> > wrote: > > So I plan to start using the IRC channel freenode/wikimedia-uk to post > some > > announcements and see what kind of engagement there is there. Everybody's > > welcome to join. I'll have it open during office hours. > > > > John > > > > On 20 August 2016 at 23:03, Rex X <r...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> Gosh, I'd didn't realise how difficult preference voting was on > twitter. I > >> had > >> to log on as 6 different IPs to vote for my third preference once, my > >> second > >> preference twice, and my first preference three times. > >> > >> -- > >> Rexx > >> > >> > >> > On 20 August 2016 at 20:08 Gordon Joly <gordon.j...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> > On 19/08/16 19:53, John Lubbock wrote: > >> > > . So I've put a poll on Twitter > >> > > <https://twitter.com/wikimediauk/status/766703544275767297> with > some > >> > > options for communications channels. I couldn't put more than four > >> > > options, so I chose Facebook, the Water Cooler, Slack and the > Mailing > >> > > List. > >> > > >> > > >> > It is clear that one choice is already out in front! > >> > > >> > :-) > >> > > >> > Facebook is a very poor medium. Never heard of Slack. > >> > > >> > https://slack.com/ > >> > > >> > How about Discourse? > >> > > >> > http://www.discourse.org/ > >> > > >> > "Civilized Discussion" > >> > > >> > Gordo > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Wikimedia UK mailing list > >> > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > >> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >> > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimedia UK mailing list > >> wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > >> WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia UK mailing list > > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk > > > > -- > fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > wikimediau...@wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk >
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