Star Wars Merchandise Wiki:IRC



Star Wars Merchandise Wiki's IRC channel (chat room) is where meetings are held and users can talk about the site in general. It also serves as a method of quickly notifying administrators about vandalism in progress or asking questions.

How to join
For advanced users:  irc.freenode.net
 * 1) SWMWiki

irc://irc.freenode.org/SWMWiki

For others:

You can either use the standard Wikia web client in your web browser or install a specialized chat program called an IRC client. These are available for a variety of platforms.

Web client

 * Wikia has a CGI:IRC gateway for the #SWMWiki channel at irc.wikia.com/starwars that lets you join the chat room from a normal web page. Just put in your username and choose "#SWMWiki" from the drop-down list.

Windows

 * mIRC is the classic Windows IRC client. The main drawbacks of mIRC are the fact that it's not free and that the configuration options are more extensive than a lot of users are used to.
 * Trillian handles IRC. It's a little complicated to set up, but if you don't want to use the very easy CGI:IRC linked by Wikia, then Trillian is a handy program to have anyway for the other things it does.
 * Miranda IM - a multi-client, like Trillian, but rather minimalist and open source.

Linux

 * Gaim is a multi-client that comes preinstalled with Ubuntu and several other Linux distributions.
 * Kopete is a multi-client, the KDE counterpart of Gaim.
 * Konversation is a KDE application with interface similar to X-Chat; it is an IRC-only client.
 * Irssi is a popular IRC client for Unix platforms. It doesn't have a GUI, but it has a lot of other features that make up for it.

Mac

 * Snak handles IRC rather nicely, and is one of the few Mac-only clients that still work flawlessly.

Crossplatform

 * Opera web browser has a built-in IRC client.
 * ChatZilla is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser.
 * JWChat - had some script errors in Firefox, but clicked "Stop script" and it worked fine after that.
 * X-Chat is perhaps the most well-known IRC client for Linux, included into nearly every distribution, which has recently grown in popularity on Windows as well. Note that the official Windows version (as opposed to Linux) is shareware, but unofficial free Windows builds are available, for example, here.