IRC office hours

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From time to time, staff members of the Wikimedia Foundation 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 participate

If you haven't used IRC before, it may be easiest to use a web client; this means you don't have to install any software on your computer. Just click here to join in, and then choose a username when prompted: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=wikimedia-office 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 using dedicated software, connect to the channel #wikimedia-office^connect on the freenode network.

Upcoming office hours

Office Hours with FDC staff #wikimedia-office^connect 20130529T150000Z 20130529T160000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Wednesday	2013-05-29	15:00 UTC until 16:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	FDC staff	FDC Letter of Intent & general proposal process

Office Hours with FDC staff #wikimedia-office^connect 20130529T000000Z 20130529T010000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Wednesday	2013-05-29	00:00 UTC until 01:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	FDC staff	FDC Letter of Intent & general proposal process

Recent office hours

Office Hours with Andre Klapper (WMF) #wikimedia-office^connect 20130513T160000Z 20130513T170000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Monday	2013-05-13	16:00 UTC until 17:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Andre Klapper (WMF)	Wikimedia bug management: Answering your questions and discussing ideas about bug management and Bugzilla, plus explaining what's on the to-do list. (Log available)

Office Hours with Jorm (WMF) #wikimedia-office^connect 20130509T180000Z 20130509T190000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Thursday	2013-05-09	18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Jorm (WMF)	Answering questions about Flow and showing off prototypes. Log available.

Office Hours with Fabrice Florin, Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba #wikimedia-office^connect 20130508T200000Z 20130508T210000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Wednesday	2013-05-08	20:00 UTC until 21:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Fabrice Florin, Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba	Discuss first release of Notifications (Echo) (see blog post)

Office Hours with Andre Klapper #wikimedia-office^connect 20130503T150000Z 20130503T163000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Friday	2013-05-03	15:00 UTC until 16:30 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Andre Klapper	Bugday on MediaWiki Installer bug reports

Office Hours with Marc Pelletier (WMF), Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Silke Meyer (WMDE) #wikimedia-office^connect 20130430T160000Z 20130430T170000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Tuesday	2013-04-30	16:00 UTC until 17:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Marc Pelletier (WMF), Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Silke Meyer (WMDE)	answering questions about Tool Labs and the upcoming migration from the toolserver to Tool Labs, roadmap: Tool Labs Roadmap (en)

Office Hours with Denny Vrandečić #wikimedia-office^connect 20130425T170000Z 20130425T180000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Thursday	2013-04-25	17:00 UTC until 18:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Denny Vrandečić	answering questions about the sources system on Wikidata to help with the references and sources RfC

Office Hours with Editor Engagement Experiments team #wikimedia-office^connect 20130427T180000Z 20130427T190000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Saturday	2013-04-27	18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Editor Engagement Experiments team	Account creation and login redesign

Office Hours with WMF researchers #wikimedia-office^connect 20130422T180000Z 20130422T190000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Monday	2013-04-22	18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	WMF researchers	WMF research projects and methodology

Office Hours with Jessie Wild #wikimedia-office^connect 20130415T180000Z 20130415T190000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Monday	2013-04-15	18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Jessie Wild	WMF program management, learning, and evaluation

Office Hours with Andre Klapper #wikimedia-office^connect 20130415T160000Z 20130415T200000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Monday	2013-04-15	16:00 UTC until 20:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Andre Klapper	Bug triage: Old bug reports

Office Hours with Quim Gil #wikimedia-office^connect 20130412T000000Z 20130412T020000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Thursday	2013-04-12	00:00 UTC until 02:00 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Quim Gil	Meetup: GSoC and other open source internship programs

Office Hours with Andre Klapper #wikimedia-office^connect 20130402T163000Z 20130402T203000Z

Day	Date	Time	Location	With	Topic(s)
Tuesday	2013-04-02	16:30 UTC until 20:30 UTC	#wikimedia-officeconnect	Andre Klapper	Bug triage: Skin and page rendering issues

Office hour logs

2013

• 2013-05-13, with Andre Klapper on Bug management and Bugzilla.
• 2013-05-09, with Brandon Harris, about the prototype of Flow. Meeting log available.
• 2013-05-08, with Fabrice Florin, Ryan Kaldari and Vibha Bamba on the Editor engagement team, about the first release of Notifications (Echo) (see blog post)
• 2013-05-08, with the Language Engineering team on recent activities including ULS development, and MLEB release.
• 2013-04-30, with Marc Pelletier (WMF), Lydia Pintscher (WMDE), Silke Meyer (WMDE) answering questions about Tool Labs and the upcoming migration from the toolserver to Tool Labs, roadmap: Tool Labs Roadmap (en)
• 2013-04-27, with the editor engagement experiments team, on the new account creation and login designs
• 2013-04-25, with Denny Vrandečić on references on Wikidata
• 2013-04-22 with WMF researchers.
• 2013-04-15 with Jessie Wild from WMF Learning and Evaluation
• 2013-04-10, with the Language Engineering team on recent activities including Translate UX redesign, MLEB release and the Language Maven outreach program.
• 2013-03-30, with Jan-Bart de Vreede and User:Sue Gardner on her departure announcement and the ED Transition Team.
• 2013-03-21, with Frank Schulenburg on Program Evaluation.
• 2013-03-19, with Andre Klapper on Bug management and Bugzilla.
• 2013-03-13, with the Language Engineering team on recent activities including Translate UX redesign and MLEB release.
• 2013-03-08, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project (German)
• 2013-02-16, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project
• 2013-02-06, with the editor engagement experiments team
• 2013-01-28, with Chief Talent and Culture Officer Gayle Karen Young.
• 2013-01-26, with Sue Gardner.
• 2013-01-22, with General Counsel Geoff Brigham and his team.

2012

• 2012-12-20, with The Wikimedia mobile team
• 2012-12-18, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project (German).
• 2012-12-18, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-12-15 with Sue Gardner on fundraising and James Forrester on the Visual Editor.
• 2012-12-01 (2nd session) with Steven Zhang on English Wikipedia Dispute Resolution.
• 2012-12-01, with the editor engagement experiments team, regarding account creation and login redesign
• 2012-11-29, with Oliver Keyes and Fabrice Florin, to talk about improvements to the moderation tools for Article Feedback v5.
• 2012-11-21, with Language Engineering team on Universal Language Selector and upcoming language test days.
• 2012-11-16, with Fabrice Florin, Benoît Evellin (Trizek) and French Wikipedia members to talk about a proposal to add the Article Feedback v5 Tool on the French Wikipedia, as discussed here.
• 2012-11-14, with Oliver Keyes and Fabrice Florin on the Echo Notifications project.
• 2012-11-06, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-11-05, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-10-17, with Language Engineering team on Universal Language Selector, Project Milkshake and Other updates.
• 2012-09-25, with Oliver Keyes, Fabrice Florin, Howie Fung, Ryan Kaldari and Benny Situ on the Page Curation suite.
• 2012-09-19, with Localisation_team on Project Milkshake and Language Team Plan
• 2012-09-12, with Nicole Ebber (WMDE), Julia Kloppenburg (WMDE), Denis Barthel (WMDE) on "Sexismus in Wikipedia".
• 2012-09-08, with the editor engagement experiments team.
• 2012-09-06, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-09-05, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-08-18 with Sue Gardner
• 2012-08-15, with Localisation team on Universal Language Selector , Project Milkshake and Translate UX
• 2012-08-02, with Siko Bouterse and Wikimedia Fellows on Wikimedia Fellowship program
• 2012-07-31, with Tilman Bayer, Christine Moellenberndt, Elizabeth MH and Beckie Neumann, on the upcoming editor survey
• 2012-07-30, with the WMF Analytics team, on analytics and statistics related questions about Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, and about the new "Kraken" platform.
• 2012-07-28, with Steven Zhang on English Wikipedia Dispute Resolution.
• 2012-07-25(2), also with Garfield Byrd and Barry Newstead.
• 2012-07-25, with Garfield Byrd and Barry Newstead on the Funds Dissemination Committee.
• 2012-07-23, with Lydia Pintscher and Daniel Kinzler on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-07-21, with Oliver Keyes on Article Feedback Tool, Version 5.
• 2012-07-20a, with Oliver Keyes on Article Feedback Tool, Version 5.
• 2012-07-20b, with Oliver Keyes on Article Feedback Tool, Version 5.
• 2012-07-18a, with Kelly Kay (legal), Terry Chay (engineering), Brandon Harris (design), Fabrice Florin (product, editor engagement), Siebrand Mazeland (product, localisation) and others from the Wikimedia Foundation features, product, design and legal teams on how they see the use of e-mail in the future.
• 2012-07-18b, with Fabrice Florin and Oliver Keyes on Article Feedback Tool, Version 5.
• 2012-07-18c, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on the Wikidata project.
• 2012-07-07, with the editor engagement experiments team on the most recent experiments completed, and plans for upcoming experiments.
• 2012-06-21, with Frank Schulenburg, Annie Lin, Hisham Mundol, LiAnna Davis, Nitika Tandon, and Rob Schnautz on the Wikipedia Education Program
• 2012-06-07, with Oliver Keyes, Howie Fung and Fabrice Florin on the Article Feedback Tool, Version 5 project.
• 2012-05-30, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on Wikidata.
• 2012-05-29, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on Wikidata.
• 2012-05-25, with Phil Chang, mobile product manager
• 2012-05-23, with the localisation team
• 2012-05-17, with Kul Wadhwa and Amit Kapoor about Wikipedia Zero
• 2012-05-16, with the New Pages Feed team.
• 2012-05-11, with Sue Gardner
• 2012-05-09, with the Wikimedia blog team
• 2012-05-04, with the Editor Engagement Experiments team
• 2012-05-01, with Gayle Young, Chief Talent and Culture Officer at WMF.
• 2012-04-30, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on Wikidata.
• 2012-04-30, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on Wikidata.
• 2012-04-18, with the localisation team
• 2012-04-12, with Garfield Byrd, Chief of Finance & Administration at the WMF
• 2012-04-05, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on Wikidata.
• 2012-04-04, with Lydia Pintscher and Denny Vrandečić on Wikidata.
• 2012-03-29, with Hisham Mundol, Nikita Tandon, Noopur Raval on the India Education Program's restructuring strategy.
• 2012-03-22, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Brandon Harris and Oliver Keyes on the New Page Triage project.
• 2012-03-13, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Brandon Harris and Oliver Keyes on the New Page Triage project.
• 2012-03-12, with Sue Gardner: Updates from the E.D., open discussion
• 2012-02-21, with the localisation team
• 2012-02-16, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin and Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool.
• 2012-02-10, with the new Legal and Community Advocacy department
• 2012-02-02, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Oliver Keyes and Aaron Halfaker on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2012-01-27, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Dario Taraborelli, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2012-01-20, with Fabrice Florin and Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2012-01-13, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Dario Taraborelli, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2012-01-12, with Sue Gardner, on SOPA plans for the movement
• 2012-01-06, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Dario Taraborelli, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2012-01-04, with the Wikimedia Foundation features development team.

2011

• 2011-12-21, with Philippe Beaudette and Maggie Dennis on the Reader Relations team.
• 2011-12-16, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Dario Taraborelli, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2011-12-15, with Sue Gardner and Geoff Brigham, mostly talking about SOPA and English Wikipedia's response.
• 2011-12-08, with Fabrice Florin, about mw:Article feedback/Version 5/Testing
• 2011-12-04, with Steven and Maryana, about WP:RESPONSE
• 2011-12-01, with Geoff Brigham on the legal strategy.
• 2011-11-18, with Fabrice Florin and Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2011-11-10, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Brandon Harris, Dario Taraborelli, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2011-11-03, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Brandon Harris, Dario Taraborelli, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2011-10-27, with Howie Fung, Fabrice Florin, Oliver Keyes on the new Article Feedback Tool designs.
• 2011-10-19, with Zack Exley, on the 2011 annual fundraiser
• 2011-10-14, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-09-22, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-08-18, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-07-28, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-06-23, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-06-16, with Erik Möller on Article Feedback tool
• 2011-06-10, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-05-26, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-04-28, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-04-14, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-03-31, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-03-18, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-02-24, with Sue Gardner
• 2011-02-18, with Barry Newstead, Moushira Elamrawy, Zack Exley
• 2011-02-17, with Barry Newstead and Hisham Mundol
• 2011-02-14, with Trevor Parscal & Roan Kattouw, on ResourceLoader
• 2011-02-11, with Barry Newstead, Asaf Bartov, Moushira Elamrawy
• 2011-01-27, with Sue Gardner

2010

• 2010-12-01, with Steven Walling
• 2010-11-10, with Sue Gardner
• 2010-11-05, with 2010 Fundraising Team
• 2010-10-27, with Sue Gardner
• 2010-10-15, with Barry Newstead
• 2010-10-14, with Sue Gardner
• 2010-10-07, with Zak Greant
• 2010-10-06, with Zak Greant
• 2010-10-05, with Zack Exley
• 2010-09-30, with Sue Gardner
• 2010-09-30, with Zak Greant
• 2010-09-29, with Zak Greant
• 2010-09-22, with Danese Cooper
• 2010-09-16, with Sue Gardner
• 2010-08-31, with Barry Newstead
• 2010-07-22, with Sue Gardner
• 2010-07-15, with Frank Schulenburg
• 2010-06-11, with Mike Godwin
• 2010-04-22, with Naoko Komura
• 2010-02-12, with Mike Godwin
• 2010-02-04, with Guillaume Paumier & Neil Kandalgaonkar
• 2010-01-27, with Rebecca Handler
• 2010-01-07, with Rand Montoya

2009

• 2009-12-17, with Sara Crouse
• 2009-12-11, with Frank Schulenburg
• 2009-12-03, with Jay Walsh
• 2009-11-19, with Véronique Kessler
• 2009-11-12, with Naoko Komura
• 2009-11-06, with Rand Montoya
• 2009-10-29, with Kul Wadhwa
• 2009-10-15, with Mike Godwin
• 2009-10-09, with Mike Godwin
• 2009-10-01, with Rand Montoya
• 2009-09-25, with Sue Gardner

WMF India Program

The log of the community meetings on IRC will be included here.

2012

• 2012-06-07 with Noopur and Subha
• 2012-06-07 with Shiju and Hisham
• 2012-04-19 with Nitika, Noopur & Hisham
• 2012-04-05 with Shiju & Hisham
• 2012-03-29 with Hisham & Nitika
• 2012-03-22 with Hisham
• 2012-03-15 with Hisham, Shiju

2011

• 2011-10-12 with India Education Program team.
• 2011-10-21 with Hisham Mundol and the India Education Program team
• 2011-10-12 with Hisham Mundol, Frank Schulenburg and the India Education Program team.
• 2011-08-25 with Hisham Mundol
• 2011-07-28 with Hisham Mundol
• 2011-06-02 with Hisham Mundol
• 2011-05-05 with Hisham Mundol
• 2011-04-07 with Hisham Mundol
• 2011-03-03 with Hisham Mundol

See also

• Metrics and activities meetings (every month)
• There were strategic planning office hours every week from 2009-08-24 until 2010-06-30.
• Wikimedia meetings for open community meetings