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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Shortcut: WP:WPIRC

Hello and welcome to WikiProject IRC, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

The idea for this project came from a suggestion for a WikiProject on the Internet Relay Chat talk page.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

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This project aims to organize, expand, and improve Wikipedia's coverage of Internet Relay Chat. It is expected that this project will have some overlap with other projects that cover topics such as online chat, online social networking, internet culture, etc and we look forward to collaborating with other WikiProjects on overlapping topics.

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If you have never used Wikipedia, please take the time to read these articles:

• Introduction to Wikipedia
• How to edit a page
• Starting a new page
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Principals' advice

To maintain article quality, please follow these rules:

• Provide sources for your edits
• ALWAYS make sure images you upload are under proper license Image Copyrights
• Restrain the number of red links
• Ensure external links are active/not broken
• AVOID emotional arguments, statements about editors of other nationalities, name calling, and anything that is not perceived as constructive, source-backed argument.

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• Join the project — add your username to the list of participants.
• If you like, you can add a userbox for this project to your user: page, just add {{Wikipedia:WikiProject IRC/Userbox}}
• Take a look at the "To Do" List and Article Index.
• Create articles about appropriate (and notable) subjects relating to Internet Relay Chat if they don't already exist.
• Tag appropriate existing articles with the {{WikiProject IRC}} template, and assess them.
• Improve articles by adding appropriately content and references. For some ideas on priorities for improvement see the list of assessed articles by class and importance.
• Add related articles to your watchlist and keep an eye out for any vandalism.
• Research deleted articles for any content worth salvaging for other articles.

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WikiProject

{{WikiProject IRC}} - For article talk pages

Userbox

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject IRC/Userbox}}

This user is a member of WikiProject IRC.

Infoboxes

{{Infobox IRC network}}

Stub

{{IRC-stub}}

This Internet Relay Chat-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e

Use {{IRC-stub}} for stub articles related to Internet Relay Chat.

Categorizes articles into Category:Internet Relay Chat stubs

(View full Templates list including navigation templates)

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Article categories

WikiProject categories

User categories

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Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Computing
• WikiProject Internet
• WikiProject Internet culture
• WikiProject Software/Free Software

Related topics

• Instant messaging
• Comparison of instant messaging clients
• Comparison of instant messaging protocols
• LAN messenger
• Comparison of LAN messengers

Resources

	Computing portal
	Internet portal
	Free software portal
	Society portal

Find more about IRC on Wikipedia's sister projects:

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Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

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15:30, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Updated and redesigned WikiProject IRC

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Most recent at top of list:

• Sandbox:Wyldryde (Help for expansion.)
• ZNC (IRC bouncer)
• DMDirc
• Mibbit
• Smuxi
• IRCjr
• WeeChat
• Rizon
• Abjects
• AbleNET

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Pages currently in the sandbox

Pages in Wikipedia:WikiProject IRC/Sandbox

Pages in Wikipedia talk:WikiProject IRC/Sandbox

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• Create and expand the Glossary and Comparison list articles
• Sort out the deleted articles from the mass {{prod}} of nearly all the articles that were in the Internet Relay Chat networks category that took place from about May 29, 2008 to June 4, 2008. Extensive digging has uncovered a very short discussion related to this in the COI Archive. [1]
• Sort out viable material from the red links that were removed from the various IRC templates.
• Write new articles for some of the red links that were removed from the navigation templates.
• Reevaluate "IRC" -> "Internet Relay Chat" bulk rename discussion from June 11, 2008 to June 21, 2008 as found in the CfD Archive [2]
  Rename seems to have caused more long-term problems than it solved for maintenance of both articles and categories on en.wiki, and especially for interwikis, of which most all continue to use "IRC".

(View full To Do List for article status tables and more information)

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• Tothwolf (talk · contribs)
• mabdul (talk · contribs)
• Southen (talk · contribs)
• thommey (talk · contribs)
• Yarcanox (talk · contribs)
• Blurpeace (talk · contribs)
• Piandcompany (talk · contribs)
• Sean (talk · contribs)

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IRC articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	Total
Quality
	FA				1	1
	B	1				1
	C		2	3	2	7
	Start		15	12	17	44
	Stub		9	8	34	51
	List		5	1	2	8
	Assessed	1	31	24	56	112
	Total	1	31	24	56	112

The above chart is a compilation of all articles that are tagged with the {{WikiProject IRC}} template, split by quality and importance.

These logs are automatically generated every 3 days; please don't add or edit entries by hand.

• IRC articles by quality
• IRC articles by quality log
• IRC articles by quality statistics

Unexpected changes such as downgrading an article or raising it more than two assessment classes at once are shown in bold.

This information is updated by a bot. By default the bot runs once every three days but it can be launched manually if required. (web form)

See also:

• Assessment Frequently asked questions & explanations

(View full article assessment instructions and grading scales)

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It is possible to view special pages that are watchlists for changes to articles in a category. For example, see related changes for recent changes to any article in Category:Internet Relay Chat. Note that this does not pick up changes to articles in sub-categories, so one has to view each category separately.

• Internet Relay Chat
  • Internet Relay Chat bots
  • Internet Relay Chat bouncers, gateways and proxies
  • Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Amiga Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Free Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Java Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Mac OS Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Mac OS X Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Unix Internet Relay Chat clients
    • Windows Internet Relay Chat clients
  • Internet Relay Chat client scripts
  • Internet Relay Chat daemons
  • Internet Relay Chat games
  • Internet Relay Chat networks
  • Internet Relay Chat services
  • Internet Relay Chat stubs
• WikiProject IRC

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