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Wikinewsies often can be found on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels #wikinews and #wikinews-en on irc://irc.freenode.net . If you don't have an IRC client (program) installed, click here. To get connected just enter a nickname and the channel of "wikinews" or click here. For more information on IRC, see meta:IRC, and Wikipedia's article on IRC. As well, List of IRC commands and IRC instructions may be helpful for people not familiar with IRC.

[edit] Guidelines

Just some guidelines to help you out:

In this case of IRC you must allow people a degree of anonymity online.
These channels are for discussion related to constructive work on the Wikinews website.
There may be social chit-chat, but it is social chit-chat amongst people who are known on the site.
If you abuse the channel in any way you may be kicked or banned by one of the channel operators.
If you need urgent assistance, just type !admin@wikinews.

#wikinews - Main, interlingual Wikinews channel
#wikinews-en - Discussion for English Wikinews
#wikinews-es - Discusión para Wikinews en Español
#wikinews-interview - Interview channel for Wikinews; interlingual
#cvn-wn-en - RC monitoring channel for English Wikinews
#en.wikinews - Wikimedia's RC channel for English Wikinews. (use server irc.wikimedia.org)
#wikinews-video - Channel for Wikinews:Video Wikinews
#wikinews-feeds - Channel which provides the latest news from various RSS feeds
##wikinews-opinions
#wikinewsie
#wikinews-nonsense
#wikinews-de
#wikinews-cs
#wikinews-ja
#wikinews-pl
#wikinews-fr

#wikimedia - Main Wikimedia Foundation discussion channel
#wikimedia-social - Social Wikimedia channel.
#wikimedia-ops - Discussion with Wikimedia channel operators
#wikimania - Discussion about Wikimania
#wikimedia-stewards - Stewards emergency help channel (If no admins are available, ask here in emergency situations)