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.
Channel policies [edit]
Wikimedia [edit]
General [edit]
Chapters [edit]
| Channel |
Language |
Notes |
| #wikimedia-chaptersconnect |
any |
Wikimedia Chapters committee and discussion of Wikimedia chapters |
| #wikimedia-iberocoopconnect |
es |
Regional Cooperation Initiative for Ibero-America (Iberocoop for short) |
| #wikimedia-arconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Argentina |
| #wikimedia-atconnect |
de |
Wikimedia Österreich |
| #wikimedia-auconnect |
|
Wikimedia Australia, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-bdconnect |
bn, en |
Wikimedia Bangladesh, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-beconnect |
en, nl, fr, de |
Wikimedia Belgium, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-boconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Bolivia. |
| #wikimedia-brconnect |
any |
Discussion of Wikimedia Brasil. |
| #wikimedia-caconnect |
en, fr |
Wikimedia Canada |
| #wikimedia-chconnect |
any |
Wikimedia CH |
| #wikimedia-clconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Chile |
| #wikimedia-coconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Colombia |
| #wikimedia-crconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Costa Rica |
| #wikimedia-czconnect |
cs, en |
Wikimedia Czech Republic, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-danmarkconnect |
da, en |
Wikimedia Danmark, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-deconnect |
any |
Wikimedia Deutschland, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-esconnect |
es, en |
Wikimedia España, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-egconnect |
ar, en |
Discussion of Wikimedia Egypt |
| #wikimedia-ficonnect |
any |
Wikimedia Finland |
| #wikimedia-frconnect |
any |
Wikimédia France |
| #wikimedia-hkconnect |
zh-hant, en |
Wikimedia Hong Kong |
| #wikimedia-huconnect |
hu, en |
Wikimédia Magyarország |
| #wikimedia-inconnect |
any |
Wikimedia India, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-itconnect |
it, en |
Wikimedia Italia |
| #wikimedia-keconnect |
en, sw |
Wikimedia Kenya |
| #wikimedia-mxconnect |
es |
Wikimedia México |
| #wikimedia-nlconnect |
nl, en |
Wikimedia Nederland, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-plconnect |
pl, en |
Wikimedia Polska - meetings every Tuesday at 9 pm. CET (or CEST) |
| #wikimedia-ptconnect |
mostly pt |
Wikimedia Portugal, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-seconnect |
mostly sv |
Wikimedia Sverige |
| #wikimedia-sgconnect |
en, ms, ta, zh-hans |
Wikimedia Singapore |
| #wikimedia-trconnect |
Türkçe |
Wikimedia Turkey, UTF-8/ASCII. |
| #wikimedia-ukconnect |
en |
Wikimedia UK, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikimedia-uyconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Uruguay |
| #wikimedia-veconnect |
es |
Wikimedia Venezuela |
| #wikimedia-midwestconnect |
en |
Wikimedia Midwest US |
| #wikimedia-northeastconnect |
|
Wikimedia NYC, Wikimedia DC and Northeast US |
| #wikimedia-westcoastconnect |
en |
West coast of North America -- British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California -- and neighbors! |
Crosswiki access coordination [edit]
| Channel |
Language |
Notes |
| #wikimedia-adminconnect |
Any |
[private] Wikimedia administrators. Contact Az1568, Barras, Cbrown1023, DerHexer, Dungodung, MarcoAurelio, Mardetanha, MF-Warburg, Pathoschild, PeterSymonds, Savh or Thehelpfulone for access. |
| #wikimedia-gsconnect |
Any |
Wikimedia global sysops and global sysop requests. Stewards and global sysops are voiced. |
| #wikimedia-opsconnect |
Any (Primarily English) |
Contact Wikimedia channel operators for assistance. |
| #wikimedia-ops-internalconnect |
|
[No idling] Join if you have private messages for ops |
| #wikimedia-otrsconnect |
Any |
Coordination of non-sensitive aspects of the work of our OTRS team. Users may request assistance from OTRS agents in this open channel. |
| #wikimedia-stewardsconnect |
Any |
Wikimedia stewards and steward requests. You get urgent help from stewards by saying !steward (use @steward for non-emergency discussion). This is an open channel, and may be logged for meetings. In reality, it's also used for most Meta-Wiki related maintenance discussions and requests; see also #wikimedia. |
| #wikimedia-privacyconnect |
Any |
[private] Wikimedia oversighters, checkusers and stewards, and users who have the presumptive right to hold these by simple request (eg WMF staff and users taking voluntary break). New oversighters, checkusers and stewards may contact Barras, DerHexer, guillom, Pathoschild, PeterSymonds or Trijnstel for access. |
| #wikimedia-checkuserconnect |
Any |
[private] Wikimedia checkusers and stewards. New CheckUsers and stewards may contact Barras, DerHexer, Dungodung, J.delanoy, Jdforrester, Pathoschild, PeterSymonds, Tiptoety or Trijnstel for access. |
| #wikimedia-external-linksconnect |
Any |
Discussion about external links on Wikimedia wikis. Used by the SWMT; voiced users can edit the blacklist. |
Projects [edit]
These channels exist for the community of a particular project, and may host both general and specific discussion.
Project channels [edit]
Wikipedia [edit]
| Channel |
Language |
Notes |
| #wikipediaconnect |
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-scienceconnect |
|
Channel for science-related Wikipedia discussion. |
| #wikipedia-ipcollconnect |
|
Channel for discussions related to Israel - Palestine Collaboration. |
| Language-specific channels |
| #wikipedia-afconnect |
Afrikaans |
Afrikaans |
| #wikipedia-alsconnect |
Alemannisch |
Alemannic, may be logged if necessary. |
| #wikipedia-arconnect |
العربية |
Arabic |
| #wikipedia-balkanconnect |
Balkan |
Balkan, publicly logged, UTF-8/ASCII encoding. |
| #wikipedia-bnconnect |
বাংলা |
This is primarily for Wikipedia, but other Bengali projects are also welcome. |
| Bynets.org:#wiki |
Беларуская |
Belarusian |
| #wikipedia-be-taraskconnect |
Беларуская (тарашкевіца) |
Belarusian (Taraškievica) |
| #wikipedia-bgconnect |
Български |
Bulgarian |
| #wikipedia-bsconnect |
Bosanski |
Bosanski |
| #wikipedia-caconnect |
Català |
Catalan |
| #wikipedia-ceconnect |
Нохчийн |
Chechen |
| #wikipedia-csconnect |
Česky |
Czech, public logging prohibited |
| #wikipedia-daconnect |
Dansk |
Danish, public logging prohibited |
| #wikipedia-deconnect |
Deutsch |
German, public logging prohibited |
| #wikipedia-elconnect |
Greek |
Greek |
| #wikipedia-enconnect |
English |
English (more help may be available in #wikipediaconnect |
| #wikipedia-eoconnect |
Esperanto |
Esperanto |
| #wikipedia-esconnect |
Español |
Spanish |
| #wikipedia-faconnect |
فارسی |
Persian |
| #wikipedia-ficonnect |
Suomi |
Finnish |
| #wikipedia-frconnect |
Français |
French |
| #wikipedia-gaconnect |
Gaeilge |
Irish gaelic |
| #wikipedia-heconnect |
Hebrew |
Hebrew |
| #wikimedia-hiconnect |
हिन्दी |
Hindi This will probably be primarily Wikipedia, but all projects are welcome this way. |
| #wikipedia-hrconnect |
Hrvatski |
Croatian |
| #wikipedia-huconnect |
Hungarian |
Hungarian |
| #wikipedia-idconnect |
Indonesia |
Indonesian |
| #wikipedia-inconnect |
Any Indian language, also English |
Languages of India |
| #wikipedia-isconnect |
Íslenska |
Icelandic |
| #wikipedia-itconnect |
Italiano |
Italian |
| #wikipedia-jaconnect |
日本語 |
Japanese, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikipedia-kaconnect |
ქართული |
Georgian |
| #wikipedia-klconnect |
Kalaallisut |
Greenlandic, however most conversations are in Danish, public logging prohibited |
| #wikipedia-kmconnect |
English & Khmer |
Khmer, however it's newly created - no frequent users yet. |
| Hanirc:#wikipedia |
한국어 |
Korean, CP949, NOT on freenode. #wikipedia-koconnect(UTF-8) also exists on freenode, but not mainly used. |
| #wikipedia-laconnect |
Latina & English |
Latin |
| #wikipedia-lingueconnect |
Italiano, English, Italian dialects |
italian dialects and languages, see also Cooperation of Wikimedia's Italian regional projects |
| #wikipedia-nlconnect |
Nederlands |
Dutch, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikipedia-nordicconnect |
Nordic languages |
Nordic languages, see also WIKIng and Skanwiki |
| #wikipedia-noconnect |
Norsk |
Norwegian |
| #wikipedia-angconnect |
Old English |
Ang |
| #wikipedia-orconnect |
Oriya / Odia |
Oriya |
| #wikipedia-plconnect |
Polski |
Polish, WWW gate |
| #wikipedia-ptconnect |
Português |
Portugese, UTF-8/latin 2 encoding. |
| #ro.wikipediaconnect |
Română |
Romanian |
| #wikipedia-ruconnect |
Русский |
Russian |
| #wikipedia-scnconnect |
Sicilan |
Sicilian |
| #wikipedia-scoconnect |
Scots |
Scots |
| #wikipedia-simpleconnect |
English |
Simple English |
| #wikipedia-sk connect |
Slovenský |
Slovak |
| #slavopedia connect |
English, Slovio |
Slavopedia and Slovio artificial language (www gate). |
| #wikipedia-sl connect |
Slovene |
Slovene |
| #sq.wikipediaconnect |
Shqip |
Albanian, low traffic. |
| #wikipedia-srconnect |
српски/srpski |
Serbian, UTF-8/ASCII encoding. |
| #wikipedia-stqconnect |
Seeltersk/Saterland Frisian and English |
Saterland Frisian |
| #wikipedia-svconnect |
Svenska |
Swedish |
| #tewikiconnect |
తెలుగు |
Telugu |
| #wikipedia-tpiconnect |
Tok Pisin |
Tok Pisin, UTF-8/ASCII (Bilingual- English or Tok Pisin) |
| #wikipedia-trconnect |
Türkçe |
Turkish, UTF-8/ASCII. |
| #wikipedia-ukconnect |
Ukrainian |
Ukrainian |
| #wikipedia-urconnect |
اردو |
Urdu, UTF-8 |
| #wikipedia-vecconnect |
Veneto |
Venetian |
| #wikipedia-viconnect |
Tiếng Việt, English. |
Vietnamese |
| #wikipedia-wuuconnect |
吴语, English |
Wu; UTF-8 encoding |
| #wikipedia-yueconnect |
粵語, 廣東話, English |
Cantonese, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikipedia-zhconnect |
中文 |
Chinese, UTF-8 encoding |
| #wikipedia-mlconnect |
മലയാളം, UTF-8 encoding. |
Malayalam |
Other projects [edit]
| Channel |
Language |
Notes |
| #wikibooks |
Any |
Wikibooks discussion. |
| #wikimedia-commonsconnect |
Any |
Wikimedia Commons discussion. |
| #wikimedia-incubatorconnect |
Any |
Wikimedia Incubator discussion. |
| #wikidata-adminsconnect |
Any |
Invite-only channel for Wikidata admins and stewards. |
| #wikimedia-wikidataconnect |
Any |
General discussion about Wikidata |
| #wikinewsconnect |
Any |
Wikinews discussion and story coordination, see Wikinews/IRC. |
| #wikiquoteconnect |
Any |
Wikiquote discussion. |
| #wikisourceconnect |
Any |
Wikisource discussion. |
| #wiktionaryconnect |
Any (sv, de, fr, and en are most common) |
Wiktionary discussions. |
| #wiktionary-gfdlconnect |
Any |
Publicly logged channel for Wiktionary. |
| #wikiversityconnect |
Any |
Wikiversity discussions. |
| #wikivoyageconnect |
Any |
Wikivoyage discussions. |
| #wikivoyage-esconnect |
es |
Wikivoyage in spanish |
| #wikivoyage-itconnect |
it |
Wikivoyage in italiano |
| Language-specific channels |
| #Wiki (alkar.net) |
Українська |
CP1251 encoding. |
| #kannadaconnect |
|
| Wikisource |
| #wikisource-deconnect |
Deutsch |
German Wikisource |
| #wikisource-frconnect |
Français |
French Wikisource |
| #wikisource-itconnect |
Italiano |
Italian Wikisource |
| #wikisource-plconnect |
Polish |
Polish Wikisource |
| Wikiquote |
| #wikiquote-enconnect |
English |
English Wikiquote |
| #wikiquote-itconnect |
Italian |
Italian Wikiquote |
| #wikiquote-jaconnect |
日本語 |
Japanese Wikiquote, UTF-8 encoding. |
| Wikinews |
| #wikinews-feedsconnect |
English |
News feeds not suitable for the main #wikinews channel |
| #wikinews-esconnect |
Español |
Wikinoticias en Español |
| #wikinews-arconnect |
العربية |
Arabic Wikinews |
| #wikinews-deconnect |
Deutsch |
German Wikinews |
| #wikinews-enconnect |
English |
English Wikinews, may be logged for meetings. |
| #wikinews-faconnect |
فارسی |
Persian |
| #wikinews-ficonnect |
Suomi (Finnish) |
Finnish Wikinews |
| #wikinews-frconnect |
Français |
Wikinews in French |
| #wikinews-itconnect |
Italiano |
Italian Wikinews. (WikiNotizie) |
| #wikinews-jaconnect |
日本語 |
Japanese Wikinews, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikinews-plconnect |
Polish |
Polish Wikinews |
| #wikinews-ruconnect |
Русский |
Russian Wikinews, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikinews-zhconnect |
Chinese |
Chinese Wikinews |
| #wikinews-elconnect |
Greek |
Greek Wikinews |
| Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-deconnect |
German |
German Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-elconnect |
Ελληνικά (Greek) |
Greek Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-ficonnect |
Suomi (Finnish) |
Finnish Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-frconnect |
Français |
French Wikibooks |
| #wikiknjige-hrconnect |
Hrvatski (Croatian) |
Croatian Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-itconnect |
Italian |
Italian Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-jaconnect |
日本語 - Japanese |
Japanese Wikibooks, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikibooks-ptconnect |
Portuguese |
Portuguese Wikibooks |
| #wikibooks-ruconnect |
Русский |
Russian Wikibooks, UTF-8 encoding. |
| Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-csconnect |
česky (Czech) |
Czech Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-deconnect |
Deutsch (German) |
German Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-elconnect |
Ελληνικά (Greek) |
Greek Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-enconnect |
English (English) |
English Wikiversity |
| #wikiversidadconnect |
español (Spanish) |
Spanish Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-frconnect |
français (French) |
French Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-itconnect |
italiano (Italian) |
Italian Wikiversity |
| #wikiversity-jaconnect |
日本語 (Japanese) |
Japanese Wikiversity, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikiversity-ptconnect |
português (Portuguese) |
Portuguese Wikiversity |
| Wiktionaries |
| #wiktionary-daconnect |
Dansk (Danish) |
Danish wiktionary |
| #wiktionary-deconnect |
Deutsch (German) |
|
| #wikcionarioconnect |
Español (Spanish) |
Canal del Wikcionario. |
| #wiktionary-frconnect |
French |
French wiktionary discussions |
| #wiktionary-elconnect |
Ελληνικά (Greek) |
Greek wiktionary discussions |
| #wjecnik-hrconnect |
Hrvatski (Croatian) |
Croatian Wiktionary |
| #is.wiktionaryconnect |
Íslenska (Icelandic) |
|
| #wiktionary-itconnect |
Italiano (Italian) |
|
| #wiktionary-nlconnect |
Nederlands (Dutch) |
Dutch wiktionary discussions |
| #wiktionary-plconnect |
Polish |
Polish Wiktionary (Wikisłownik) |
| #wiktionary-ptconnect |
Portugese |
Portugese wiktionary discussions |
| #wiktionary-simpleconnect |
Simple English |
Simple English Wiktionary discussion |
| #wiktionary-svconnect |
Svenska (Swedish) |
|
Specific projects [edit]
en.wikipedia [edit]
A complete and updated list of channels may be found at en:Wikipedia:IRC#Functional_groups.
es.wikipedia [edit]
A complete and updated list of channels may be found at es:WP:IRC#Canales_IRC.
fr.wikipedia [edit]
it.wikipedia [edit]
zh.wikipedia [edit]
| #wikipedia-zh-helpconnect |
Chinese (English is used occasionally, but is not recommended) |
Help channel for Chinese Wikipedians. Helpers or sysop of the Chinese Wikipedia are voiced. |
MediaWiki and technical [edit]
MediaWiki [edit]
General development and technical discussion [edit]
| Channel |
Language |
Notes |
| #wikimedia-techconnect |
|
Home for the community for technical support, development and other discussions on wiki bots, wiki templates, mediawiki software and other software used by the Wikimedia community (see also Tech). Here wikimedians can also check, ask, report technical problems or issues and sysadmins will see. Publicly logged. |
| #wikimedia-devconnect |
|
The software development team of the Wikimedia Foundation (formerly #wikipedia_usability). publicly logged (old: wikipedia_usability, wikimedia-dev). |
| #wikimedia-toolserverconnect |
de, en, others |
Operation of the toolservers (Logging is allowed). |
| #wikimedia-labsconnect |
|
Everything Wikimedia Labs. Publicly logged. |
| #wikimedia-mobileconnect |
|
All things related to mobile devices within the Wikimedia projects Publicly logged. |
| #wikimedia-operationsconnect |
|
Operation of the Wikimedia servers. Used by sysadmins to discuss and coordinate server administration. Publicly logged. |
| #wikimedia-fundraisingconnect |
Any |
Discussion on possible fundraising ideas, note: may be logged, see Fundraising ideas fork. |
| #wikimedia-analyticsconnect |
|
Server statistics/performance discussion by the Analytics Team. |
Non-Wikimedia [edit]
General [edit]
The following channels are for discussion of specific tools developed (or under development) for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. These channels (like all the others on this page) are not owned, operated, or affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Recent changes [edit]
Raw feeds [edit]
These are live Recent changes feeds hosted on the irc.wikimedia.org server which show 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.
Every one of the >730 Wikimedia wikis has an IRC RC feed. The channel name is #lang.project. For example, the channel for German Wikibooks channel is #de.wikibooks.
Filtered rc [edit]
If you wanted to have a filtered feed of recent changes of some project, you can use WM bot for that. The bot can be controlled by anyone with wikimedia cloak. It is possible to define a list of pages to watch and bot will then report the changes in simple format directly to channel on freenode, providing link to diff.
Abuse monitoring channels [edit]
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.
- » Check Countervandalism Network#Channels for a channel overview