Wikiversity talk:Chat

Are IRC channel cloaks now available specifically for Wikiversity? --JWSchmidt 00:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I just asked on Meta today...apparently not yet. --HappyCamper 17:43, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikiversity Forums
Has there been any thought of creating forums for wikiversity? Forums would make for easier communication between wikiversity members. Mainly, they do not have to be online at the same time to discuss certain issues. It would especially be useful for teachers and students to interact. --Totti 02:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * What form do you picture such "forums" taking? like this? Sometimes we just go free-style. We have been hoping that a threaded discussion system will be built into the MediaWiki software. --JWSchmidt 03:04, 25 June 2007 (UTC)


 * LiquidThreads was more along the lines of what I was talking about. Just a threaded, organized type of communication.

--Totti 03:13, 25 June 2007 (UTC)

** #wikiversity-en-projects

 * #wikiversity-en-projects

Freenode no longer accepts mibbit
Removed the mibbit link since freenode no longer accepts it. EAS 07:53, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Ban of JWSchmidt
Moved from here. Adambro 13:15, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

I was banned from #wikiversity-en by User:SB Johnny without any warning, discussion or reason given. I still do not understand why I was banned or why the ban is allowed to stand. I hope that some day Wikiversity will return to the practice of allowing free discussion in #wikiversity-en. --JWSchmidt 17:02, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

If there was no reason given, there will be no reason given in here either. Just his "GFY" reply, I guess, which, obviously, will not be "censored". --Davichito 20:00, 14 January 2009 (UTC)


 * This block should be reversed. There is no transparent reason given. It looks like censorship.
 * The crat that did this should not be a crat. Custodian maybe, but not crat. This is horrible. At least we should change the welcome templates to direct people to channels where long time users are not blocked for reasons that users can understand in other ways than just hearsay. Emesee 06:47, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Community Review
Development of a policy for #wikiversity-en chat channel behavior is now under community review. The Blocks and bans from IRC page is part of the proposed policy. --JWSchmidt 22:25, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Community Review
The proposed policy for the chat channel is a subject of Community Review. --JWSchmidt 15:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Policy Change
I saw that this was stilla proposal but no one has discussed making it policy. I've used chats before and bans are rarely used. I think it would be good to make this a policy. IDangerMouse 14:31, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I've read the page section and making it a policy is fine with me. Guido den Broeder 20:43, 25 January 2011 (UTC)


 * not quite ready. In order for this proposed policy to make sense, the chat channel must be publicly logged. All Wikiversity official process should be, normally, on-wiki, but exceptions can be made if another medium is more efficient, and chat might be that. But, then, it should be logged for public review. If users want to have private discussions, they may use email, where an expectation of privacy is reasonable. The problem has been the use of chat to come up with an illusion of consensus, based heavily on participation bias, or, alternatively, chat has been used to threaten users, etc., but if the user complains, there are objections about making the log public. If a log is made public by an offended user, there is no easy way to confirm that the log hasn't been cherry-picked, comments taken out of context, etc. But if the logs are public, cherry-picking can backfire. --Abd 17:17, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * not ready. Wikiversity doesn't even have a policy with consensus for when to block on wiki yet, and so the proposal makes premature assumptions, plus most of the page is information based and not policy based which shouldn't be mixed. -- dark lama  18:50, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I could be wrong, but I think he was referring to the IRC section which, at least to me, would prohibit bans based on personal disputes than any real reason. I would support that. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Support a removal of bans on users of IRC from the chat except in clear cases of spammers or other similar individuals. Regular users should be allowed to freely speak and not be intimidated into silence. Ottava Rima (talk) 19:10, 26 January 2011 (UTC)