Wikinewsies
often can be found on
Internet Relay Chat
(IRC) channels
#wikinews
and
#wikinews-en
on
irc://irc.libera.chat
. If you don't have an IRC client (program) installed,
click here
. To get connected, just enter a nickname and the channel of "wikinews" or
click here
. For more information on IRC, see
meta:IRC
, and
Wikipedia's article on IRC
. As well,
List of IRC commands
and
IRC instructions
may be helpful for people not familiar with IRC.
Guidelines
Just some guidelines to help you out:
- In this case of IRC, you must allow people a degree of anonymity online.
- These channels are for discussion related to constructive work on the Wikinews website.
- There may be social chit-chat, but it is social chit-chat amongst people who are known on the site.
- If you abuse the channel in any way, you may be kicked or banned by one of the channel operators.
- If you need urgent assistance, just type
admin@wn
.
Channels
Wikinews Channels
- Wikimedia's
RC
channel for English Wikinews. (use server irc.wikimedia.org)
- channel for all Wikinews
admins
.
Wikimedia Channels