Wikiversity:Chat

WV:CHAT

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.

IRC client softwareEdit

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

Web based versionsEdit

Freenode qwebirc client
ChatZilla extension for Firefox.

For most IRC clients you will start with a window you can enter information type "/server irc.freenode.com" and hit enter, this will connect you. Then you can do "/join #wikiversity-en" and this will join you to the room (replace #wikiversity-en with the room name of your choice).

Freenode IRC NetworkEdit

Freenode hosts several Wikimedia channels including one for Wikiversity:

#wikiversity (interlingual hub channel and English):

Please note: as of Jan. 1, 2018 the #wikiversity-en channel (and possibly other languages) now redirects to #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.
#wikivoyage General channel of Wikivoyage

Important: It is a suggested Wikimedia meta-wiki guideline that meta:IRC channels prohibit the publishing of chat logs publicly. Wikiversity needs a policy for #wikiversity-en.

Software development:

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

Channel rules:

freenode's channel guidelines describe rules that every channel on their network must follow.
Wikimedia's channel guidelines describes rules that all wikimedia project channels should follow.

Wikimedia IRC channelsEdit

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

By resourceEdit

Resource subjects may use irc channels to be shared within and outside of the Wikiversity community. It is the choice of the editors of any project if they want to add irc locations to resources. Freenode is suggested, since it is free and widely used by Wiki projects.

NetiquetteEdit

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

Who's Who?Edit

Add your name and notes below if you like:

CQ as "yeoman" on #wikiversity-en
Mu301 as "mikeu@wikimedia/Mu301" on #wikiversity and other freenode channels
wikiversilinky your friendly IRC bot
The Jade Knight as "JadeKnight" (or occasionally impersonating other users), on #wikiversity-en\
hughm as "hlm" on #wikiversity-en
Atcovi as "Atcovi, thestupidking (tsk), or M2NIK" on #wikiversity (general)

MeetingsEdit

Meeting schedule - Internet Relay Colloquium, an attempt to see if holding IRC meetings on Wikiversity is feasible.

ToolsEdit

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
Phenny, a free IRC bot