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id="shortcut" style="border: 1px dashed blue; margin: 0em 1em 0em 1em; text-align: center; padding:5px; float: right; clear: right;"> <b><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:WN" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikinews:WN">Shortcut:</a></b><br/><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:IRC" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikinews:IRC">WN:IRC</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg/300px-Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg/450px-Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg/600px-Gato_leyendo_canal_IRC_de_Wikipedia_en_espa%C3%B1ol.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536"/></a><figcaption>IRC cat is watching!</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Wikinewsies" title="Wikinews:Wikinewsies">Wikinewsies</a> often can be found on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat" class="extiw" title="w:Internet Relay Chat">Internet Relay Chat</a> (IRC) channels <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/wikinews">#wikinews</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/wikinews-en">#wikinews-en</a> on <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="irc://irc.libera.chat">irc://irc.libera.chat</a> . If you don't have an IRC client (program) installed, <b><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/">click here</a></b>. To get connected, just enter a nickname and the channel of "wikinews" or <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews">click here</a>. For more information on IRC, see <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC" class="extiw" title="meta:IRC">meta:IRC</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat" class="extiw" title="w:Internet Relay Chat">Wikipedia's article on IRC</a>. As well, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_Relay_Chat_commands" class="extiw" title="w:List of Internet Relay Chat commands">List of IRC commands</a> and <a href="https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_instructions" class="extiw" title="meta:IRC instructions">IRC instructions</a> may be helpful for people not familiar with IRC. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Guidelines" data-mw-thread-id="h-Guidelines"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Guidelines"></span>Guidelines<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Guidelines"></span></h2></div> <p>Just some guidelines to help you out: </p> <ul><li>In this case of IRC, you must allow people a degree of anonymity online.</li> <li>These channels are for discussion related to constructive work on the Wikinews website.</li> <li>There may be social chit-chat, but it is social chit-chat amongst people who are known on the site.</li> <li>If you abuse the channel in any way, you may be kicked or banned by one of the channel operators.</li> <li>If you need urgent assistance, just type <b>admin@wn</b>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 ext-discussiontools-init-section"><h2 id="Channels" data-mw-thread-id="h-Channels"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Channels"></span>Channels<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Channels"></span></h2></div> <table style="float: right; margin: 5px; border: 1px groove gray;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="border-bottom:2px solid gray; background-color:#ddddff; text-align:center"> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Introduction" title="Wikinews:Introduction">Wikinews Help</a></b> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; background-color:#eeeeff;"> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Introduction" title="Wikinews:Introduction">Introduction</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Writing_an_article" title="Wikinews:Writing an article">Writing an article</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Article_layout_in_a_nutshell" title="Wikinews:Article layout in a nutshell">Article outline</a><br/> <a href="https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Editing_pages" class="extiw" title="mediawikiwiki:Help:Editing pages">Editing help</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; background-color:#eeeeff;"> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Article_flags" title="Wikinews:Article flags">Article tags</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:IB" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikinews:IB">Infoboxes</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Help:How_to_decorate_your_article" title="Help:How to decorate your article">Article decorations</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom:1px solid gray; background-color:#eeeeff;"> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Policies_and_guidelines" title="Wikinews:Policies and guidelines">Policies and guidelines</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Neutral_point_of_view" title="Wikinews:Neutral point of view">Neutral point of view</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Content_guide" title="Wikinews:Content guide">Content guide</a> <br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Cite_sources" title="Wikinews:Cite sources">Cite sources</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Style_guide" title="Wikinews:Style guide">Style guide</a> <br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Naming_conventions" title="Wikinews:Naming conventions">Naming conventions</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Original_reporting" title="Wikinews:Original reporting">Original reporting</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Contents" title="Wikinews:Contents">Contents</a> </p> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#eeeeff;"> <p><a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Contact_us" title="Wikinews:Contact us">Contact us</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Administrators" title="Wikinews:Administrators">Administrators</a><br/> <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Wikinews chatroom</a><br/> <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Water_cooler" title="Wikinews:Water cooler">Water cooler</a> </p> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Wikinews_Channels" data-mw-thread-id="h-Wikinews_Channels-Channels"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Wikinews_Channels-Channels"></span>Wikinews Channels<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Wikinews_Channels-Channels"></span></h3></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews">#wikinews</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Main, interlingual Wikinews channel</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-en">#wikinews-en</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-en"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Discussion for English Wikinews</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#cvn-wn-en">#cvn-wn-en</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/cvn-wn-en"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:<a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">RC</a> monitoring channel for English Wikinews</li> <li><a class="external text" href="irc://irc.wikimedia.org/en.wikinews">#en.wikinews</a></li></ul> <dl><dd>Wikimedia's <a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="Special:RecentChanges">RC</a> channel for English Wikinews. (use server irc.wikimedia.org)</dd></dl> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-feeds">#wikinews-feeds</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-feeds"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Channel which provides the latest news from various RSS feeds</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-workshop">#wikinews-workshop</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-workshop"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Channel for the open-doors <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:IRC_workshop" title="Wikinews:IRC workshop">IRC workshop</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinewsie">#wikinewsie</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinewsie"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Private channel, not open to outsiders</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-private">#wikinews-private</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-private"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Private channel, not open to outsiders</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-tech">#wikinews-tech</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-tech"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Discussion for <a href="/wiki/Wikinews:Tech" title="Wikinews:Tech">Wikinews Technology</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-interview">#wikinews-interview</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-interview"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:Interview channel for Wikinews; interlingual</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-cs">#wikinews-cs</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-cs"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-de">#wikinews-de</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-de"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" 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class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-ja">#wikinews-ja</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-ja"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-ko">#wikinews-ko</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-ko"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup>:위키뉴스 토론 채널 (Korean Wikinews coordination channel)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="irc://irc.libera.chat/#wikinews-pl">#wikinews-pl</a> <sup><span class="plainlinks"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.libera.chat/wikinews-pl"><span style="color:green;">live connect</span></a></span></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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