Hi Janine,
Of the links that you mentioned I was only able to get one of them to work, but I searched for friendlier IRC clients and I think I've found one. It's called Kiwi IRC. I'll ask the Freenode people what they think about changing their default web client to Kiwi. If they want to keep their current client it may still be possible for Wikimedia to change the default chat client used when people connect directly from English Wikipedia to #wikipedia-en-help.
Pine
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Janine, can you share links to the sites? I'm seriously interested in this idea of a friendlier interface for IRC.
Pine On Aug 2, 2014 8:03 PM, "Janine Starykowicz" jrstark@barntowire.com wrote:
One of the sites I've found them on is more technical, but another is definitely not. The embedded version is very newbie friendly.
Janine
Pine W wrote:
That sounds workable and hopefully friendly.
Pine
On Aug 2, 2014 7:51 PM, "Janine Starykowicz" <jrstark@barntowire.com mailto:jrstark@barntowire.com> wrote:
There are plenty of people using IRC, but many of them don't knowit. There are chatroom/IRC hybrids, generally on forum sites. You embed the chat window in a web page, and anyone can join in. Those who want can use any IRC client to get to the same channel, but with more features.
http://www.irchighway.net/ http://mibbit.com/ Janine Sarah Stierch wrote: Exactly. IRC is for the old school and ubergeek. And as Sue hassaid in the past - we're only going to "retain" specific types of people to be long term editors (ubergeeks like us) but, if we can figure out a solution to help out the "average joe/sphine" editor...
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