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#wikipedia-en-admins is a closed channel for administrators on the English Misplaced Pages. Many admins on other Wikimedia projects, former admins, developers and OTRS respondents are there as well (at sole discretion of the channel wizards).
Purpose
There's a lot of chitchat, but it's basically somewhere to talk about admin work. It's also amazing how people who argue furiously on the wiki can be a lot nicer in real time. It's good for quickly asking questions. Admins are more likely to find a checkuser when they're in a hurry too.
The channel was originally created by Danny to deal with urgent living biography issues. Foundation staff and board members will often go onto the channel with a problem needing solving.
Important: The channel is useful for double-checking yourself, but don't decide things based on an IRC discussion without noting it on WP:ANI for review. You might be wrong!
Conduct on the channel
You're an admin, you were picked for your judgement. Use it.
Comport yourself in a collegiate manner, even when you're REALLY upset. The channel is private, but logs do leak. Don't disparage editors under discussion — it will get back to them.
How to get access
If you're an English Misplaced Pages admin:
- Go here to request an . (Sean then processes these by hand.)
- Request access below. (Someone will then process these by hand with /cs ACCESS #wikipedia-en-admins ADD your/cloak 5.)
Requests
- your cloak here, with your admin username
Channel wizards
Access is at the sole discretion of James F., and his helpers Shanel, Mindspillage, Interiot, Dmcdevit, Mark Ryan, Lar, David Gerard and sannse.
David and JamesF would quite like all en:wp admins on this channel, particularly new ones. Though IRC is not mandatory to being an admin, and if anyone tries to make it a criterion for support at RFA they should be ignored as hard as possible.
Sources of processes detailed on this page
James Forrester is the contact Freenode has for Wikimedia-related IRC channels. The Foundation disclaims IRC, so James is the sole source of authority. So it's a good thing he's sane.
Parts of this page may have apparently frivolous wording. This is not a problem, because admins are picked for their judgement and cluefulness.