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Contents 1 Channel Change 2 Magnus 3 Virus? 4 Time to Talk? 5 Proposed Changes

[edit] Channel Change

Earlier today (at about 2:30 pm PDT), Aristeo effectively shut down the #UESP IRC channel that had up until that point been used by the UESPWiki community. He redirected all incoming traffic and kicked out everyone who was in the channel at the time.

Therefore a new channel, #UESPWiki, has been put in place. The IRC article has been substantially modified in order to provide information describing some of the ideas on how to run this new IRC channel. People familiar with the old channel may want to read through the page, in particular the guidelines, because there have been several changes.

One important change has been making the IRC policy subject to community consensus, just like all other policies on UESPWiki. Therefore, the current page basically represents the initial proposal for how to run the new channel. If anyone has any suggestions or feedback about the guidelines, this talk page can be used to discuss the guidelines. The entire community is welcome to participate in the discussions, even editors who do not use the IRC channel (in particular with regards to questions of how IRC and the rest of the wiki interact). --Nephele^Talk 22:37, 14 July 2007 (EDT)

[edit] Magnus

I just noticed that Magnus is not listed as an operator on the main article. He is an operator, isn't he? --GuildKnight^Talk2me 22:02, 7 December 2007 (EST)

Indeed, fixed. --TheRealLurlock ^Talk 02:15, 8 December 2007 (EST)

[edit] Virus?

My anti-virus software (Symantec) found a "High-Risk Virus" (actually, 8770 of them) called "Backdoor.IRC.Bot. Just thought it might be worth mentioning so that people know to look out for it. It allows a hacker to use IRC channels to control your PC, from what I can tell. --GuildKnight^Talk2me 22:02, 7 December 2007 (EST)

Hmmm, you might want to make sure to get that off as quick as possible. Most irc servers see that and assume its an open proxy, shutting you off from the server. It's reversible of course (sometimes the proxy scanner catches me every once in a while for no apparent reason). --Timmeh ^Talk 23:36, 7 December 2007 (EST)

I'm running Symantec all the time and it's never reported finding a virus called "Backdoor.IRC.Bot". Any chance it came from somewhere other than #UESPWiki? I just don't want to warn IRC users about a virus if it didn't come from our IRC channel. Especially since my impression is that chatspike has a few mechanisms in place to prevent such types of bots from propagating in chatspike. --Nephele^Talk 01:18, 12 December 2007 (EST)

If no one else has seen the problem, then it's probably not something worth mentioning. It's just that that's the only place I can think of that it may have come from. But ya never know. --GuildKnight^Talk2me 01:20, 12 December 2007 (EST)

[edit] Time to Talk?

I had an idea (might not be mine, can't remember too well) to have a special night where we advertise that we will be in the IRC room. Sort of like a meeting, where new people would be guaranteed to get help and be able to talk with other editors. This is course isn't a replacement for the Community Portal, but a good way how to get new editors in the room. --Timmeh ^Talk 18:54, 22 January 2008 (EST)

[edit] Proposed Changes

I'd like to rearrange the main IRC page and move almost all the material to a "Joining" subpage. This is intended to make it more inconvenient to get onto IRC, but for a good reason. I've seen several people come on to the channel and assume they are being deliberately ignored when nobody replies. A good example came along last night. I happened to be AFK at the time and assume everybody else was too. Having asked a question (incomprehensible, but that's not the point) and waited a couple of minutes for a reply, the user typed:

21:38 <UESPUser075>	Hmm..,. no one is responding. Uncalled for
21:39 <UESPUser075>	bye I have to go...thanks for not responding really uncalled for

I remember another case where the user thought he had been hit with some kind of read-only ban, so we couldn't see his comments.

I'm proposing to have a brief initial page at UESPWiki:IRC that simply asks people to make sure they've read the site before asking questions about the game, and explains that people may not respond immediately - or indeed, at all. There would then be a link to the subpage that would contain the policies, list of operators and, most importantly, links to the applet.

None of this will change any existing policies, just rearrange things a bit to ensure people understand things a bit better. Any comments? –Rpeh^{•T•C•E•} 14:14, 18 March 2009 (EDT)