[Wikinews-l] Web based chat interface for Wikinews

Sun Apr 10 21:56:48 UTC 2005

Thanks to Ilya Haykinson, there's now a web interface to our chat rooms:

http://www.tiredbrain.com/wikinews/irc/irc.cgi

If you've always thought about joining our real-time chat, this is an 
easy way for you to get connected without knowing anything about IRC. We 
have also reorganized the chat rooms a bit. There are now the following 
channels:

#wikinews - international discussion, coordination of global reporting

#wikinews-en - http://en.wikinews.org/
#wikinews-pl - http://pl.wikinews.org/
#de.wikinews - http://de.wikinews.org/

#de.wikinews.org still follows the old naming convention. FreeNode 
prefers the "project-subproject" convention.

I'm very happy with these developments. Already, there have been some 
interesting discussions on #wikinews about a global editorial policy for 
Wikinews, and a lot of exchanges between the Polish and English 
communities. I hope that more people from the other editions will join 
the international chat room on a regular basis.

If you intend to use the chat, please add yourself to the list at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/IRC
so we have an idea who comes from which region.

All best,

Erik