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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.
[edit] Channel policies
[edit] Wikimedia
[edit] Foundation
[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-br |
Any |
Discussion of Wikimedia Brasil. |
| #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-hk |
zh-hant, en |
Wikimedia Hong Kong |
| #wikimedia-hu |
hu, en |
Wikimédia Magyarország |
| #wikimedia-it |
it, en |
Wikimedia Italia |
| #wikimedia-nl |
nl, en |
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 re-established), may be logged for meetings. |
[edit] Crosswiki access coordination
| Channel |
Language |
Notes |
| #wikimedia-admin |
Any |
[private] Wikimedia administrators. Contact Az1568, Bastique, Cbrown1023, DerHexer, Dungodung, Kylu, Mardetanha, Mike.lifeguard, Pathoschild, Shanel, Spacebirdy or Thogo for access. |
| #wikimedia-checkuser |
Any |
[private] Wikimedia checkusers and stewards. New CheckUsers and stewards may contact Angela, Bastique, Dmcdevit, guillom, Jdforrester, Mackensen, Connel MacKenzie for access. |
| #wikimedia-otrs |
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-stewards |
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. |
[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-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 |
| #wikipedia-fa |
فارسی |
Persian |
| #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. |
| #wikipedia-nordic |
Nordic languages |
Nordic languages, see also WIKIng and Skanwiki |
| #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. |
| #wikipedia-zh |
中文 |
Chinese, UTF-8 encoding. |
| #wikipedia-ml |
മലയാളം, UTF-8 encoding. |
Malayalam |
[edit] Other projects
[edit] Specific projects
[edit] en.wikipedia
[edit] Recent changes
[edit] Raw feeds
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.
With few exceptions, every one of the >730 Wikimedia wikis has an IRC RC feed. Those which do not are noted in bugzilla:13646. The channel name is #lang.project. For example, the channel for German Wikibooks channel is #de.wikibooks.
[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
[edit] English
[edit] French
[edit] Other languages
[edit] Non-Wikimedia
[edit] General
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.
