IRC

There are various ways to connect with other WikiForge/WikiTide users and volunteers in real-time. One of these ways is to connect with us via Internet Relay Chat  (IRC). WikiTide has an ample presence on the Libera.Chat IRC network. There, you can talk with all our volunteers and solicit help or discuss particular topics.

Many IRC channels are also relayed to our Discord server so if you're on Discord, there is no need to connect to our IRC channels to receive assistance in certain channels and vice versa.

Access
To access our IRC, you may click the little green "connect" button next to any channel below to open a web client or you can use any IRC client you wish.

Many of our IRC channels are moderated by designated IRC operators but some channels may have different operators depending on their purpose (for example, a feed channel for a wiki may have local wiki administrators as operators and not system administrators and so on). If you have any questions, please contact them.

If you are banned for any reason from our IRC channels, please contact an IRC operator or email sre@undefinedwikiforge.net.

Channels
This is a general directory of IRC channels of importance. This doesn't reflect all IRC channels which exist in the  and  namespaces.

Main

 * (logs) - general discussion related to WikiForge/WikiTide
 * - general discussion related to WikiTide (currently not controlled by WikiTide staff)
 * - channel for contacting or for requesting assistance from WikiTide/WikiForge Site Reliability Engineers
 * - a public channel to inform CVT members of any vandalism or spam on a wiki.

Feeds

 * - Feed channel for CVT monitoring bots (not yet functional)
 * - an IRC Recent Changes feed of all public wikis (not yet functional)

For IRC Operators, please see IRC/Ops.

Logging
Some channels are logged on wm-bot.wmcloud.org. They are listed above with links to their logs.
 * Note: Using IRC without an IRC cloak will display your IP address to those currently in the channel at the time, so you are encouraged to request a libera.chat cloak and use SASL authentication to hide your IP address.

Memos
If you want to talk with an user but they aren't currently online, you can leave them a memo using MemoServ. MemoServ will DM the user informing them that they have a memo from you when they log in, along with instructions on how to read the memo.

Send  to MemoServ through DM (for example  ) for a list of commands. To send a memo, send  to MemoServ via DM. For example:.

Bots
There are some bots that we use (some are owned by WikiForge/WikiTide, some are not). Before adding a bot to a channel, please ask an operator first.
 * WikiForgeLogBot - Logs items on Server Admin Log
 * WikiForgeLSBot - Relays log items issued directly from the server by the system administrator to IRC from their issuing the  command. WikiForgeLogBot, in turn, logs the items to the Server Admin Log.
 * WikiForgeRC - feeds recent changes from all public wikis to IRC (#wikiforge-feed)
 * wm-bot - displays personalised commands (i.e. "good night") and others. Also provides channel logging. For details see this
 * botifico - displays GitHub actions on the WikiForge Repositories
 * WikiForgeRelay - Relays messages between IRC and WikiForge's Discord.

Stalkwords
Stalkwords are words that can be used to get the attention of an entire group of people in an emergency.
 * !ops - Used to get immediate attention of channel operators in the event of an active situation requiring moderation powers on IRC.
 * !sre - Used to get immediate attention of as much of SRE as possible in an emergency. Please note that this is only to be used when an issue requires that as many people as possible get on an issue. This may at some point trigger SMS notifications and be used to wake up people / alert in a very spammy way. Incidents that require this ping should affect the entire farm and a significant proportion of users. (Cache proxy down, Database failures affecting a whole cluster, 502/3s lasting more than a few minutes etc., inability to edit despite logging in/out for all users)