IRC/Project
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Some people are trying to promote the use of IRC on Wikimedia projects.
The main objective is to make of IRC a primary way of communication between wikimedians, and, if possible, to embed the chat into Wikimedia, allowing users to access the chat through a browser, without installing an IRC client (like in chat.wikizine.org or java.freenode.net).
Participants
[edit]Sign below if you're interested in this project:
- Waldir 18:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Gil 19:26, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
- Thiago R Ramos 02:40, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
Pros
[edit]- Spare server resources spent on talk pages;
- Prote real-time dialog, to speed up coordination and improve assistance;
- Spread the use of chat to welcome and guide newbies that dont have an IRC client installed
Cons
[edit]- There is no "official" log of the chats, so any decision may be contested.
- There is no linkage between user authentication on wikimedia projects and wikimedia's IRC channels.
Progress
[edit]On-Browser IRC clients
[edit]- chat.wikizine.org - using CGI. by Walter Vermeir
- java.freenode.net - using a Java applet (PJIRC). by Rubin
- #wikipedia-bootcamp on-site - also using PJIRC. by Bjelleklang
- wikinews chat (CGI:IRC)
Similar projects
[edit]Here are listed all the projects of integrating IRC chat into the en:mediawiki software:
- MediaWiki/PJIRC_Hack by Shannon McNaught
- Chat_phpFreeChat
- Chat_Notification by SymlynX
- Simultan_Java-Chat by Coma, Kurt Jansson, Head, Gwalla | last edition: 14 June 2004
- Bug 4806 by Walter Vermeir, about chat using CGI
Similar ideas
[edit]- Excerpt: I guess it might help to implement a gateway to an IRC-like forum which is not only accessible from most web browsers, but is also closely integrated with MediaWiki. Perhaps a chat room could be plonked into a talk page like a template, say {{chat:vfd}} to include a java applet accessing a chat room about VFD. -- Tim Starling 15:06, Jul 19, 2004 (UTC)
Where to propose
[edit]Contacting the developers
[edit]- Developers
- developer list at sourceforge (most likely to be up to date)
- irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-tech
- irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki
- irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-stewards
- irc://irc.freenode.net/wikimedia-toolserver
- mw:Communication