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From FireWiki

FireWiki has "chat rooms" dedicated to it 24 hours a day on the Freenode network, in which FireWikians can engage in real-time discussions with each other. Many FireWikians have chatting open in one window, and hop back and forth between them while working on FireWiki. Chat rooms dedicated to FireWiki are listed below.

"Chat room" is another name for an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel. To participate in the chat rooms, you need a type of program or plug-in called an IRC client. Popular clients include mIRC for Windows, Colloquy for Mac OS X, and ChatZilla for Firefox.

Some users stay logged-in to the chatrooms whenever they are on FireWiki, and check in on the discussions from time to time, to read what's been accumulating there and to participate. Some programs used for chatting "beep" you whenever there is activity in a chat room so you won't miss anything. Often, users jump onto a chat room to draw the attention of others there of something on FireWiki that needs attention.

How is IRC related to FireWiki?

The Wikipedia channels on freenode are an unofficial place for FireWikians to chat using IRC. As far as their influence on FireWiki goes, IRC is equivalent to e-mail, or a conversation in a pub: chat is a private conversation which, in ordinary circumstances, has no effect on how one is treated on FireWiki.

Most FireWiki channels prohibit the publication of chat logs.

Channels

Main

• #firewiki - The main FireWiki discussion channel. Discussions are mainly in English.
• #firewiki-ml - The multilingual FireWiki discussion channel.
• #firewiki-en - The english firewiki discussion channel

Logging Policy

FireWiki IRC logs are prohibited. This is to ensure privacy for the users that contribute to the channel. Sometimes, however, meetings will take place on IRC. When this occurs, all contributions to the channel are considered to be under the GNU Free Documentation License (see Project:Copyrights for details).