IRC channels
From Meta
| Communication |
|---|
| Mailing lists |
| Meetup |
| Babel |
| Wikimedia IRC |
| Channels listing |
| Instructions |
| Guidelines |
| #wikipedia |
| Contacts |
| People |
| Cloaks |
| Bots |
| FAQ |
| Stalkwords |
| Quotes (en) online QDB |
| Quotes (fr) |
| modify |
This page attempts to track and identify the numerous Wikimedia IRC channels (most of which are on the freenode network); see also a general overview of IRC.
Contents |
[edit] Channel policies
- All Wikimedia IRC channels on freenode are the responsibility of the IRC Group Contacts.
- IRC guidelines is an attempt to codify unwritten rules of conduct expected from all users.
[edit] Wikimedia
[edit] Foundation
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #wikimedia | Any | Wikimedia Foundation issues, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-tech | Operation of the Wikimedia servers. | |
| #wikimedia-cc | Communications committee. | |
| #wikimedia-translation | Any | Wikimedia Translation subcommittee and those helping translation. |
| #wikimedia-irc | Any (Primarily English) | Support for Wikimedia IRC channels; often the best place to find an IRC Group Contact |
| #wikimedia-ops | Any (Primarily English) | Contact Wikimedia channel operators for assistance. |
| #wikimedia-toolserver | de, en, others | Operation of the toolservers (Logging is allowed) |
| #wikimedia-fundraising | Any | Discussion on possible fundraising ideas, note: may be logged, see Fundraising ideas fork. |
| #wikimedia-cpg | ComProj | |
| #wikimania | Any | Wikimania discussions |
[edit] Chapters
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #wikimedia-chapters | Any | Wikimedia Chapters committee and discussion of Wikimedia chapters |
| #wikimedia-ar | es | Wikimedia Argentina |
| #wikimedia-at | de | Wikimedia Österreich |
| #wikimedia-au | Wikimedia Australia, may be logged for meetings. | |
| #wikimedia-ca | en, fr | Wikimedia Canada (to be established) |
| #wikimedia-ch | Any | Wikimedia CH |
| #wikimedia-cz | cs, en | Wikimedia Czech Republic (to be established), may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-de | Any | Wikimedia Deutschland, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-eg | ar, en | Discussion of Wikimedia Egypt |
| #wikimedia-fr | Any | Wikimédia France |
| #wikimedia-it | it, en | Wikimedia Italia |
| #wikimedia-nl | Wikimedia Nederland, may be logged for meetings. | |
| #wikimedia-pa | en | Wikimedia Pennsylvania (to be established) |
| #wikimedia-pl | Any | Wikimedia Polska - meetings every Thursday at 9 pm. CET (or CEST) |
| #wikimedia-se | mostly sv | Wikimedia Sverige |
| #wikimedia-uk | Wikimedia UK (to be established), may be logged for meetings. |
[edit] Crosswiki access coordination
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #wikimedia-admin | Any | [private] Wikimedia administrators. Contact Az1568, Cbrown1023, Pathoschild, Shanel, birdy or Slowking Man for access. |
| #wikimedia-checkuser | Any | [private] Wikimedia checkusers and stewards. New CheckUsers and stewards may contact Jdforrester, Angela, Dmcdevit, Connel MacKenzie, or Mackensen for access. |
| #wikimedia-otrs | OTRS team. | |
| #wikimedia-stewards | Any | Wikimedia stewards and steward requests (may be logged for meetings). |
[edit] Projects
These channels exist for the community of a particular project, and may host both general and specific discussion.
[edit] Project channels
[edit] Wikipedia
| Channel | Language | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #wikipedia | Any, but in practice mostly English. | Main channel, heavily populated. Off-topic discussion will be moved. Public logging prohibited, See #wikipedia for more details. | ||
| #wikipedia-science | Channel for science-related Wikipedia discussion. | |||
| Language-specific channels | ||||
| #wikipedia-af | Afrikaans | Afrikaans | ||
| #wikipedia-als | Alemannisch | Alemannic, may be logged if necessary. | ||
| #wikipedia-ar | العربية | Arabic | ||
| #wikipedia-balkan | Balkan | Balkan, publicly logged, UTF-8/ASCII encoding. | ||
| #wikipedia-be | Belarusian | Belarusian | ||
| #wikipedia-bg | Български | Bulgarian | ||
| #wikipedia | Português - Brasil | Brazil, Português-BR irc.interIRC.org Batepapo Inteligente. | ||
| #wikipedia-ca | Català | Catalan | ||
| #wikipedia-ce | Нохчийн | Chechen | ||
| #wikipedia-cs | Česky | Czech | ||
| #wikipedia-da | Dansk | Dansk | ||
| #wikipedia-de | Deutsch | German, public logging prohibited | ||
| #wikipedia-el | Greek | Greek | ||
| #wikipedia-en | English | English (more help may be available in #wikipedia | ||
| #wikipedia-eo | Esperanto | Esperanto | ||
| #wikipedia-es | Español | Spanish | ||
| #wikipedia-fi | Suomi | Finnish, ISO-8859-1 and -15 encoding. | ||
| #wikipedia-fa | فارسی | Farsi | ||
| #wikipedia-fr | Français | French | ||
| #wikipedia-ga | Gaeilge | Irish gaelic | ||
| #wikimedia-hi | हिन्दी | Hindi This will probably be primarily Wikipedia, but all projects are welcome this way. | ||
| #wikipedia-hr | Hrvatski | Croatian | ||
| #wikipedia-hu | Hungarian | Hungarian | ||
| #wikipedia-in | Any Indian language, also English | Languages of India | ||
| #wikipedia-ga | Irish | |||
| #is.wikipedia | Íslenska | Icelandic | ||
| #wikipedia-it | Italiano | Italian | ||
| #wikipedia-ja | 日本語 | Japanese, ISO-2022-JP | ||
| #wikipedia-ko | 한국어 | Korean, UTF-8 (also #wikipedia on HanIRC, CP949 encoding) | ||
| #wikipedia-nl | Nederlands | Dutch, may be logged for meetings. | ||
| #nordic.wikipedia | Nordic languages | Nordic languages, see also WIKIng | ||
| #wikipedia-no | Norsk | Norwegian | ||
| #wikipedia-pl | Polski | Polish, WWW gate | ||
| #wikipedia-pt | Português | Portugese, UTF-8/latin 2 encoding. | ||
| #ro.wikipedia | Română | Romanian | ||
| #wikipedia-ru | Русский | Russian | ||
| #wikipedia-simple | English | Simple English | ||
| #wikipedia-sk | Slovenský | Slovak | ||
| #slavopedia | English, Slovio | Slavopedia and Slovio artificial language (www gate). | ||
| #sq.wikipedia | Shqip | Albanian, low traffic. | ||
| #wikipedia-sr | српски/srpski | Serbian, UTF-8/ASCII encoding. | ||
| #wikipedia-sv | Svenska | Swedish | ||
| #tewiki | తెలుగు | Telugu | ||
| #wikipedia-tr | Türkçe | Turkish, UTF-8/ASCII. | ||
| #wikipedia-uk | Ukrainian | Ukrainian | ||
| #wikipedia-ur | اردو | Urdu, UTF-8 | ||
| #wikipedia-vec | Veneto | Venetian | ||
| #wikipedia-vi | Tiếng Việt, English. | Vietnamese | ||
| #wikipedia-wuu | 吴语, English | Wu; UTF-8 encoding | ||
| #wikipedia-yue | 粵語, 廣東話, English | Cantonese, UTF-8 encoding. | ||
| #zh.wikipedia | 中文 | Chinese, UTF-8 encoding. | ||
| #ml.wikipedia | മലയാളം | Malayalam | ||
[edit] Other projects
[edit] Specific projects
[edit] en.wikipedia
| #wikipedia-en-admins | Private discussion among English Wikipedia administrators. See en:Wikipedia:IRC channels/wikipedia-en-admins. (invite only) | |
| #wikipedia-en-help | Any, but mostly English. | Help channel for Wikipedians. Features a live feed of en:CAT:HELPME. Helpers are voiced. |
| #wikipedia-en-unblock | Channel for admins to review blocks. Admins and trusted users are voiced. There is also a live feed of en:CAT:RFU. | |
| #wikipedia-medcab | Mediation Cabal | |
| #wikipedia-mediation | [private] Mediation Committee | |
| #wikipedia-en-roads | en | Coordination and collaboration of users of the Highways WikiProject on Wikipedia. Logging only permitted when a meeting takes place, and the location to place the log is mentioned here. |
| #wikipedia-avatar | English (en-us) | Coordination and collaboration of users of the Avatar: The Last Airbender WikiProject on Wikipedia. The only place authorized for logging is here. |
[edit] Other
| #wikinews-video | en (other languages permitted) | Coordination and collaboration of users working on the Video Wikinews project. |
[edit] Recent changes
[edit] Raw feeds
These are live Recent changes feeds hosted on the irc.wikimedia.org server. A number of bots shows edits on the wiki automatically as they happen. The displayed URLs give the cumulative differences produced by the edit concerned and any subsequent edits; The time is not listed but timestamping may be provided by your IRC-client. Confirmation that an edit has been processed is typically faster through IRC than through the browser.
There are about 500 RC channels on irc.wikimedia.org.
[edit] Wikibooks
| Channel | Notes |
|---|---|
| #en.wikibooks | ISO-8859-1 encoding. |
[edit] Wikinews
| Channel | Notes |
|---|---|
| #en.wikinews | ISO-8859-1 encoding. |
[edit] Wikipedia
| Channel | Notes |
|---|---|
| #als.wikipedia | |
| #de.wikipedia | |
| #en.wikipedia | ISO-8859-1 encoding. (at least this one is UTF-8 now) |
| #fi.wikipedia | Most people use #wikipedia-fi-rc at irc.freenode.net, which has a different style, some additional features and is in ISO-8859-15 encoding. |
| #fr.wikipedia | |
| #ja.wikipedia | |
| #no.wikipedia | |
| #pl.wikipedia | |
| #pt.wikipedia | |
| #ru.wikipedia |
[edit] Wikisource
| Channel | Notes |
|---|---|
| #en.wikisource | |
| #fr.wikisource |
[edit] Multilingual
| Channel | Notes |
|---|---|
| #beta.wikiversity | BetaWikiversity |
| #commons.wikimedia | Wikimedia Commons |
| #meta.wikimedia | Meta-Wiki |
| #wikisource | Old Wikisource |
| #incubator.wikimedia | Wikimedia Incubator |
| #mediawiki.wikipedia | MediaWiki.org |
| #species.wikipedia | Wikispecies |
[edit] Abuse monitoring channels
Abuse monitoring channels unofficially patrol edits to counter vandalism and other abuse on Wikimedia wikis. These usually contain IRC bots that list suspicious edits with information such as the editor, edit summary, size change, and diff link.
Most such channels are run by local operators with the technical assistance of the CVN staff; to contact the staff, request access to a restricted channel, or discuss wiki countervandalism, see #countervandalism.
[edit] Multilingual
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #cvn-commons | Any | Wikimedia Commons |
| #cvn-meta | Any | Meta-Wiki |
| #cvn-species | Any | Wikispecies |
| #cvn-sw | Multilingual | See SWMT/IRC (Owned and operated by the Small Wiki Monitoring Team and the CVN) |
| #wikimedia-otrs-watch | Any (Primarily English) | Wikimedia OTRS/article monitoring |
[edit] English
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #cvn-wb-en | English | English Wikibooks |
| #cvn-wn-en | English | English Wikinews |
| #cvn-wp-en | English | English Wikipedia English Wikipedia New user creation channel |
| #wikipedia-en-spam | English | (English Wikipedia) A bot reports possible additions of spam. Not affiliated with the countervandalism wiki. |
| #cvn-simplewikis | English | Simple English Wikipedia, Simple English Wiktionary and Simple English Wikibooks |
| #cvn-ws-en | English | English Wikisource |
| #cvn-wt-en | English | English Wiktionary |
| #cvn-wq-en | English | English Wikiquote |
[edit] French
| Channel | Project | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #vandalism-fr-wp | Wikipedia | Wikipedia |
| #vandalism-fr-wb | Wikibooks | Wikibooks |
| #vandalism-fr-ws | Wikisource | Wikisource |
| #vandalism-fr-wn | Wikinews | Wikinews |
| #vandalism-fr-wikt | Wikitionary | Wiktionary |
| #vandalism-fr-wq | Wikiquote | Wiktiquote |
| #vandalism-fr-wv | Wikiversity | Wiktiversity |
[edit] Other languages
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #cvn-wp-es | Spanish (Español) | Spanish Wikipedia |
| #cvn-wp-is | Icelandic (Íslenska) | Icelandic Wikipedia |
| #cvn-wp-no | Norwegian (Norsk bokmål/riksmål) | Norwegian Wikipedia |
| #cvn-wp-pl | Polish (Polski) | Polish Wikipedia |
| #cvn-wp-pt | Portuguese (Português) | Portuguese Wikipedia |
| #cvn-wp-sv | Swedish (Svenska) | Swedish Wikipedia |
| #wikipedia-tr-vandalism | Turkish (Türkçe) | Turkish Wikipedia |
| #wikipedia-ca-vandalisme | Catalan (Català) | Catalan Wikipedia |
[edit] Non-Wikimedia
[edit] General
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #mediawiki | any | Discussion of the MediaWiki software, logged by TomK32 (password required to view). |
| #mediawiki-it | Italian | Discussion of the MediaWiki software in Italian. |
| #mediawiki-i18n | Any | Discussion of the internationalization of MediaWiki software. |
| #wiki | Discussion about Wikis in general |
[edit] Tools
The following channels are for dicussion of specific tools developed (or under development) for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation wikis. These channels are not owned, operated, or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.
| Channel | Language | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| #autowikibrowser | English | AutoWikiBrowser (multiple wikis). |
| #tawker-bot | English | AntiVandalBot (en-Wikipedia). |
| #vandalproof | English | VandalProof, WikiMonitor, VP2 (en-Wikipedia, logging permitted). |
| #npwatcher | English | NPWatcher (en-Wikipedia new page patroller). |
| #wikimedia-milestones | Any | Countdown to various milestones. |
| #pywikipediabot | Any | Discussion about the Pywikipedia bot framework. |
| #botolatori | Italian | Discussion about the Pywikipedia bot framework. |
| #wikipedia-spam-t | English | Discussion about the LinkWatcher bot. |
