Commons:Internet Relay Chat

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For real-time chat with other Wikimedians, there are several Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, located on the Libera Chat network (irc.libera.chat).

IRC channels

#wikimedia-commons ^webchat for general discussions about Commons (channel guidelines)
#cvn-commons ^webchat to catch possible vandalism
#cvn-commons-uploads ^webchat to monitor image uploads
#wikimedia-commons-poty ^webchat for Picture of the Year contest coordination
#wikimedia-commons-admin ^webchat is the channel for administrators [no idling]
#wikimedia-commons-lr ^webchat is the channel for license reviewer assistance/discussion
#wikimedia-commons-tech ^webchat for technical discussions (bot is reporting recent changes on commons related bugs)
#wikimedia-commons-move ^webchat provides a feed of file rename requests in real-time

See also m:IRC/Channels (main list)

IRC clients

Separate IRC software such as KVirc, Pidgin, XChat or Colloquy (Mac) are popular. Some web-based interfaces also exist, e.g. https://web.libera.chat.

Help

Wikipedia:IRC tutorial
m:IRC - information page on Meta-Wiki
m:IRC/Cloaks - provides information about obtaining a hostmask cloak