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Contents 1 IRC client software 1.1 Web based versions 2 Freenode IRC Network 3 Wikimedia IRC channels 4 Netiquette 4.1 Who's Who? 5 Tools 6 See also 7 External links

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For real-time chat with other Wikiversity users, in addition to live recent changes (find out more), several Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels are located on the freenode network (website). Multilingual chat takes place on the hub channel, #wikiversity.

[edit] IRC client software

• To Chat on IRC, you will need some type of IRC client. See the Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients at Wikipedia.
• Note that IRC needs more care to maintain anonymity than Wiki editing does - details on this at m:IRC cloaks and w:Wikipedia:IRC channels

[edit] Web based versions

• For web-based access to the IRC channels, you may use the CGI IRC platform at Wikizine.
• There is also the ChatZilla extension for Firefox.
• If you have Java, you can try the Freenode Java client. (Can be slow on older machines)

[edit] Freenode IRC Network

Freenode hosts several Wikimedia channels:

• #wikiversity (interlingual hub channel):
  • #wikiversity-en English
  • #wikiversity-cs Česky (Czech)
  • #wikiversity-de Deutsch (German)
  • #wikiversity-el Ελληνικά (Greek)
  • #wikiversidad Español (Spanish)
  • #wikiversity-fr Français (French)
  • #wikiversity-it Italiano (Italian)
  • #wikiversity-ja 日本語 (Japanese)
  • #wikiversidade Português (Portuguese)
  • #wikiversity-pt Português (Portuguese)
  • ...this list may grow. Please coordinate new beta versions on #wikiversity

Sister projects:

• #wikimedia is for discussion of Wikimedia Foundation issues.
• #wikimedia-tech is for discussion of technical issues relating to the Wikimedia servers.
• #wikimedia-toolserver is for discussion of technical issues relating to the Toolserver.
• In addition to the above channels, other Wikimedia projects have channels at Freenode. For example, Wikinews uses #wikinews and of course #wikipedia.

Important: It should be noted by all users that all Wikimedia channels now prohibit the publishing of chat logs publicly; although there are exceptions - see meta:IRC channels for more details.

Software development:

• #mediawiki is particularly for discussion about the MediaWiki software. See MediaWiki.org for guidelines
• ...A host of free and open source software is developed and supported through FreenodeIRC. see Freenode.net for more information

[edit] Wikimedia IRC channels

For keeping track of recent changes, about 500 channels are available on irc.wikimedia.org/. These channels are "read only." (You can't actually "chat" there - they are only for reading broadcasts). see Recent changes channels for further details.

• #en.wikiversity - the Recent Changes channel for en.wikiversity.org
• #beta.wikiversity - the Recent Changes channel for beta.wikiversity.org
• #cvn-wv-en - countervandalism recent changes channel on freenode for en.wikiversity.org

[edit] Netiquette

Much has been said about how to behave in chatrooms. See Netiquette and IRC guidelines.

[edit] Who's Who?

Add your name and notes below if you like:

• CQ as "yeoman" on #wikiversity-en
• mikeu as "mikeu" on #wikiversity-en and other freenode channels
• wikiversilinky your friendly IRC bot
• The Jade Knight as "JadeKnight" (or occasionally impersonating other users), on #wikiversity-en
• ...

[edit] Tools

• Wikifier and WikipediaLink plugins for the Colloquy IRC client makes wikilinks clickable.
• w:User:Henna/VF is a Java program that gives a nice, customizable front end to the Recent Changes IRC channel.
• User:MichaelBillington/IRC - access #wikiversity-en using javascript and your web browser.
• IRC channel cloaks - Request a Wikiversity IRC channel cloak
• ...

[edit] See also

• Voice chat
• More details are on Meta.
• Meta:IRC channel cloaks provide information about obtaining a hostmask cloak.
• #wikiversidad - Chat for the Spanish language Wikiversity
• IRC tutorial at Wikipedia
• IRC at Wikibooks
• IRColloquium - Internet Relay Colloquium, an attempt to see if holding IRC meetings on Wikiversity is feasible.

[edit] External links

• IRC emoticons for beginners