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For real-time chat with other Wikipedians, as well as live recent changes, there are several Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, located on the Freenode network (irc.freenode.net) — #Misplaced Pages is the main forum. If you don't use IRC, there is a jabber chatroom at en.wiki@muc.jabber.org.

Channels

Discussion

Several IRC channels are available for general discussions:

Channels in non-English languages are available too:

Recent Changes

Edits are reported live for four language versions of Misplaced Pages:

Differences with recent changes web pages:

  • IRC gives edits one by one automatically as they happen, Recent Changes shows the batch of latest changes when one asks
  • the time is not listed (but timestamping may be provided by the IRC-client)
  • the URL (depending on the IRC-client, a link) is provided to a webpage showing the cumulative differences produced by the edit concerned and any subsequent edits; Recent Changes provides more links
  • IRC gives all edits, for Recent Changes preferences can be set to hide minor edits. Also bot edits are shown on IRC, but Recent Changes only does so with an extra request
  • past edits, made before one starts up IRC, can not be shown
  • bolding watched pages is not applicable on IRC (but the IRC client may have a similar feature)
  • the additional features of Enhanced Recent Changes are not applicable on IRC

Confirmation that an edit has been processed is typically faster through IRC than through the browser.

How to connect

Most Mozilla and mIRC users can simply point their browser to irc://irc.freenode.net/wikipedia.

All you need is an IRC client installed on your machine (installation of a Java client on the Misplaced Pages server is being considered). For now, you may wish to try the client at jChatIRC. A list of clients respective to your operating system is given in the IRC entry.

Once downloaded and installed perform the following steps (most IRC clients also provide graphical interfaces to common commands):

  1. Use the /server command to connect to the server, e.g. /server irc.freenode.net
  2. Choose a nickname by typing /nick <nickname>, e.g. /nick JohnDoe. Nicknames can be up to 16 characters long. You can use letters and numbers (no spaces or symbols).
  3. Join the channel by typing /join #wikipedia. Channels are the equivalent of chat rooms on IRC.
  4. For help type /help. Commands on most IRC clients have to be preceded by a '/', channel names by a '#'.
  5. Optional: You can register your nick with the nickserv service. Type /msg nickserv register <password>, e.g. /msg nickserv register foo. When logging on later on type /msg nickserv identify <password> so that nickserv can identify you as the owner of a nick. For more help, type /msg nickserv help.
  6. Read the help and readme files of the client you installed for more information.

You can also post a message on the Village pump. Or you can try to contact a wikipedian directly via instant messaging: see Misplaced Pages:Instant Messaging Wikipedians.

Nicknames

If your nickname on IRC is different from your username on Misplaced Pages, you can list it here:


Nickname Misplaced Pages Username
Byte Simon Arlott
cliffster1 cliffster
CryptoDerkLab CryptoDerk
Fennecus; FennecFoxen Fennec
ihwil Information Habitat
Jeedo Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
millipede Perl; AlexPlank
Mookie William Guynes
PhilBoswell Phil Boswell
skimpIzu Hfastedge
Sonja Sonjaaa
statcrazy Hemanshu
tbc Tim Chambers
Vicious] WhisperToMe
Weishaupt Adam Conover
wilylojik Jason Michael Smithson
Xirzon Eloquence


Hostmask Cloaks

IRC hostmask cloaks allow a user to replace their IRC hostname with a string such as dogmaster3000.wikipedia. See Misplaced Pages:IRC channel cloaks for more details.

Logs

FreeNode does not log the chat of the channels on the network. Here are logs that wikipedia users have uploaded:

See also

External links