IRC office hours
Wikimedia Foundation or Wikimedia chapters staff members conduct online IRC chat sessions known as office hours. The events provide Wikimedia community members the opportunity to ask questions or provide feedback on the work of the staff member hosting the session. There is generally no set agenda; often, the staff member hosting the session will be assisted by a facilitator, who determines the order of questions, and generally helps to keep things going.
Sessions typically last one hour, and happen more or less once a week. Time of day varies, both according to staff availability, and in order to offer people in different parts of the world the opportunity to participate. (Check local timezones)
Announcements are made on this page, and on the Wikimedia-L email list. If you would like to download this schedule to your calendar, there are several options:
- This page uses the hcalendar microformat; you can download in iCal format, or subscribe to an iCal of events on this page: webcal://h2vx.com/ics/https%3A//meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours (both use the iCalendar format).
How to participateEdit
If you haven't used IRC before, it may be easiest to use a web client as you don't have to install any software on your computer. Just click "connect" here -> #wikimedia-officeconnect to join in, and then choose a username when prompted. You may be prompted to click through a security warning, it's fine.
For more information about IRC software you can install on your computer, go to the Wikipedia entry on IRC or the Meta page on Wikimedia IRC. If you're using dedicated IRC software, connect to the channel #wikimedia-officeconnect on the freenode network.
Guidelines for hostsEdit
If you're hosting an office hour, it might be worth your time to look at a few tips some of the veterans have thrown together. If you think the guidelines could use revision, say so on the talk page!
Semi-regular IRC office hours meetingsEdit
- TechCom-RFC discussions, usually on Wednesdays at 2:00 pm Pacific local time.
- Wikimedia monthly activities meetings, usually on the last Thursday of each month starting 11:00 Pacific local Time. (DEPRECATED?)
- Wikimedia Clinics (not necessarily on IRC)
Upcoming office hoursEdit
Day | Date | Time | Location | With | Topic(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Saturday | 2021-04-17 | 15:00 UTC until 16:00 UTC | #wikimedia-officeconnect; Telegram; Zoom; YouTube | User:Mdennis (WMF) | Trust & Safety, Community Resilience & Sustainability (fourth office hour) |
Past office hours (no log published yet)Edit
- You can help complete these:
- Edit this page
- move the template for your meeting to the #Office hour logs section.
- change it from
{{Upcoming office hour}}
to{{Completed office hour}}
- save it
- Click the date link in your meeting's template, it'll go to a subpage for your meeting. That probably doesn't exist, so create the page
- Find the the automated log around the time of your meeting, copy the lines
- paste the meeting's IRC log into this inside a <poem> tag.
- categorize the log as Category:IRC office hours logs and other categories relevant to your project.
- See previous #Office hour logs for examples.
- If you used meetbot to run your meeting, you can copy and paste its wiki output into this.
2018Edit
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Office hour logsEdit
The dates here usually link to wiki pages into which someone has pasted the log of the meeting. An IRC bot automatically stores "raw" logs of the wikimedia-office channel as plain text. This tool[dead link] can also be used for viewing the logs and converting to wikitext.
2020Edit
- 2020-12-10 with User:Mdennis (WMF) on Community Resilience and Sustainability office hours (details)
- 2020-10-15 with User:Mdennis (WMF) on Trust & Safety, Community Resilience & Sustainability (second office hour)
- 2020-06-04 with User:Mdennis (WMF) on Trust & Safety, Community Resilience & Sustainability
2019Edit
- 2019-07-18 with Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler, Keegan Peterzell on Structured Commons, support for other statements
- 2019-07-17 with User:Nikerabbit on TechCom RFC discussion
- 2019-07-16 with User:Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) on Wikidata update
- 2019-06-26 with WMF Language Team on Language Showcase
- 2019-01-10 with Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler, Keegan Peterzell on Structured Commons, multilingual captions
2018Edit
- 2018-11-01 with Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler, Keegan Peterzell on Structured Commons, multilingual captions
- 2018-10-04 with Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler, Keegan Peterzell on Structured Commons
- 2018-10-03 with Trey Jones, Erik Bernhardson, Stas Malyshev on An opportunity to talk to engineers about Wikimedia search
- 2018-07-04 with WMF Language Team on Office Hour and online round table
- 2018-06-26 with Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler, Keegan Peterzell on Structured Commons
- 2018-06-25 with Olga Vasileva, Chris Koerner on Contribution tools on mobile web via exiting MediaWiki skin
- 2018-03-28 with WMF Language Team on Office Hour and online round table
- 2018-02-13 with Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler, Keegan Peterzell on Structured Commons
2017Edit
- 2017-11-21 with Sandra Fauconnier, Amanda Bittaker, Ramsey Isler on Structured Commons
- 2017-09-20 with Content Translation developers on Office Hour and online round table
- 2017-06-27 with WMF Language Team on Office Hour and online round table
- 2017-03-22 with WMF Language Team on Office Hour and online round table
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See alsoEdit
- Wikimedia monthly activities meetings (every month)
- There were strategic planning office hours every week from 2009-08-24 until 2010-06-30.
- Technical Advice IRC Meeting, every Wednesday from 4-5pm UTC between 2017 and 2019.
- Wikimedia meetings for open community meetings
- mw:Tech talks – these are video presentations with a simultaneous IRC office hour for discussion and Q&A