On 19/11/06, Akash Mehta <draicone(a)gmail.com> wrote: Just to note that there was, at some time, talk of integrating MediaWiki with an online learning system, or at least making it pluggable. That didn't seem to kick off, but perhaps it's worth revisiting? Rob Church

On 20/11/06, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote: Agreed. Running IRC servers isn't hard, running them well, and having them set up to handle a Wikimediaesque load is. The development and server administration teams don't really need the hassle of operating these, and I doubt we want a new clique to form to run them either. Freenode do an adequate enough job for our needs, and we seem to have a good reputation with them. Rob Church

On 11/20/06, Teemu Leinonen &lt;teemu.leinonen(a)uiah.fi&gt; wrote: Teemu, thank you for bringing up this subject - it's something we've discussed but not put into practice yet. There was an early initiative by Robert Horning to teach calculus through IRC, though I've no idea how successful it was. If you want to contact him, his Wikibooks userpage would probably be quickest: <http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Robert_Horning> On your question, there is currently a page on Wikiversity about how to get in touch with other Wikiversity/Wikimedia community members via IRC: <http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Chat>. I was unsure of whether to set up a page at something like: <http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Using IRC> (link doesn't exist - yet!), but decided to send this email first. If you want to set this up yourself, you're free to do so. Or, perhaps, if you'd like to discuss these things via IRC, you're always most welcome to join us on irc.freenode channel: #wikiversity-en Hope to take this further - and "kiitos" again :-) Cormac http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/User:Cormaggio

It would be useful for the IRC gateways to be integrated with the wiki in the same way the portals like www.wikipedia.org are. That way each course could make their own landing page on the wiki rather than someone with server access needing to create an HTML page for every course. For example, http://irc.wikiversity.org/law/ would point people to the law channels with #wikiversity-law as the default one rather than listing hundreds of options or expecting IRC newbies to understand that they need to type /join #wikiversity-law once connected. Angela.