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For real-time chat with other Wikimedians, there are several Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels, located on the Libera Chat network (irc.libera.chat).

• #wikimedia-commons ^webchat for general discussions about Commons (channel guidelines)
• #cvn-commons ^webchat to catch possiblevandalism
• #cvn-commons-uploads ^webchat to monitor image uploads
• #wikimedia-commons-poty ^webchat for Picture of the Year contest coordination
• #wikimedia-commons-admin ^webchat is the channel foradministrators[no idling]
• #wikimedia-commons-lr ^webchat is the channel forlicense reviewer assistance/discussion
• #wikimedia-commons-tech ^webchat for technical discussions (bot is reporting recent changes on commons related bugs)
• #wikimedia-commons-move ^webchat provides a feed of file rename requests in real-time

See alsom:IRC/Channels (main list)

Separate IRC software such asKVirc,Pidgin,XChat orColloquy (Mac) are popular. Some web-based interfaces also exist, e.g.https://web.libera.chat.

• Wikipedia:IRC tutorial
• m:IRC - information page on Meta-Wiki
• m:IRC/Cloaks - provides information about obtaining a hostmask cloak

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