The DokuWiki has an official #dokuwiki chat channel at Freenode.

Feel free to join at irc://irc.freenode.net/dokuwiki

• Server: irc.freenode.net
• Port: 6667
• Channel: #dokuwiki

People without an IRC Client available, can use the webchat provided by Freenode (just enter a nickname, connect and chat).

While at IRC it is a benefit to register the nick, so nobody else can use it. Look here for an step-by-step guide: Freenode FAQ - Nicksetup

• Read the Freenode Channel Guidelines.
• Be patient, users might not answer right away because they may be busy¹⁾. Just ask your question and stay in the channel.
• Please speak English in the channel, so others can benefit from the discussion
• Do not DCC (direct chat) the developers unless they ask you to do that. All question have to be asked in the channel.
• When talking about code use a pastebin instead of posting huge chunks of code.
• If your problem got solved on IRC, please update the documentation accordingly. If you posted about it on the mailinglist or forum before, follow it up with a description of the solution.

The IRC channel is logged by a bot called dokubot. Searchable chat logs are available at http://irc.dokuwiki.org. When the log is blank, tell splitbrain in the channel. The bot tends to die sometimes and needs a restart then.

dokubot also automatically posts links to bug reports and pages at dokuwiki.org. He also serves a small choice of beverages.

Another bot, called CIA-*, posts live commit messages from github. This bot is operated by CIA.vc which also offers a few commit statistics.

Developers, community managers and people interested in helping out meet in the IRC channel on a regular basis.

Learn more about IRC meetups here.

Freenode provides free (as in beer) IRC chat facilities for Free and Open Source Software communities like DokuWiki. They are doing a great and valuable service for the whole Open Source world. If you got help on the DokuWiki IRC channel, please consider donating to freenode.