Submissions/OTRS: Wikimedia's complaints department
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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2010. |
- Title of the submission
- OTRS: Wikimedia's customer service department
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
- Presentation
- Author of the submission
- Jim Redmond
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
- User:Jredmond
- Country of origin
- United States
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
- none
- Personal homepage or blog
- none
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
- A small global team of volunteers works off-wiki to handle most incoming e-mail for the Wikimedia Foundation:
- questions about Wikimedia Foundation projects
- grants of license for donated media
- reports of article errors
- issues with biographies of living persons
- issues with corporate or organizational profiles
- complaints of vandalism, misinformation, or bias
- inquiries about re-using text or media
- requests for editing help
- compliments and feedback
- general information requests
This presentation will help attendees understand the Wikimedia Foundation's e-mail response system; how it is currently used; and how it may be used in the future. New and potential OTRS volunteers are encouraged to attend.
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
- People and Community
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- No
- Slides or further information (optional)
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