https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18791
Summary: CGI:IRC web interface for Freenode's Wikimedia chat
rooms
Product: Wikimedia
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22CGI%3AIRC+Lo
gin%22+%22irc.freenode.net%22&btnG=Search
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: IRC
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Some (any) web interface would be nice, and even useful in many different ways.
I'm not personally concerned with anything but #wikipedia, though other
Wikimedia sites could deal with it. Someone has set up a personal site for
Wikinews already.
Reasons/benefits/causes:
* CGI:IRC is open source, and lightweight enough. It seems to work fine for
other sites (link via Freenode FAQ):
* Cloaking: Logging in through the interface would mean that people could get
cloaked.
* Account handling: More people could use and thus benefit from IRC, and better
integration of
* Newbies: The interface could also deal better with basic help info that
people apparently have to dig for on both Meta and Freenode. (Ie. /msg nickserv
register, /join #room, etc.)
* Collaboration: Integration of IRC with article-specific editing. More
specific chat rooms can be forums for overseeing content development.
Ostensibly, ideal basic function would require the interface to be hosted on
the/a toolserver, and Wikipedia or otherwise would use a simple Special:IRC
page that provides an on-site interface. Later I suppose chat fields could be
embedded on talk or meta pages via a transclusion tag.
Issues:
* Server load?
* Disruption to Freenode?
* Disruption to Wikipedia?
* Browser load issues? Does proposed client use proper caching/fetching
techniques?
* Better client(s)?
* Collisions between WP and FN usernames?
* Preferences?
* Setup/register FN account through WP?
Web 3.0 would come soon after.
-SV
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