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IRC channel
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
Client
People without an IRC Client available, can use the webchat provided by Freenode (just enter a nickname, connect and chat).
Registering your Nick
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
Channel Rules
- 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.
Channel Logs and Bots
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.
Channel Meetups
Developers, community managers and people interested in helping out meet in the IRC channel on a regular basis.
Learn more about IRC meetups here.
About Freenode
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.