Thanks to Ilya Haykinson, there's now a web interface to our chat rooms:
http://www.tiredbrain.com/wikinews/irc/irc.cgi
If you've always thought about joining our real-time chat, this is an
easy way for you to get connected without knowing anything about IRC. We
have also reorganized the chat rooms a bit. There are now the following
channels:
#wikinews - international discussion, coordination of global reporting
#wikinews-en -
http://en.wikinews.org/
#wikinews-pl -
http://pl.wikinews.org/
#de.wikinews -
http://de.wikinews.org/
#de.wikinews.org still follows the old naming convention. FreeNode
prefers the "project-subproject" convention.
I'm very happy with these developments. Already, there have been some
interesting discussions on #wikinews about a global editorial policy for
Wikinews, and a lot of exchanges between the Polish and English
communities. I hope that more people from the other editions will join
the international chat room on a regular basis.
If you intend to use the chat, please add yourself to the list at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinews/IRC
so we have an idea who comes from which region.
All best,
Erik