Welcome to #WrongPlanet on Freenode Internet Relay Chat (IRC). This will be a tutorial for beginners to the channel, or long time users looking to refresh themselves. This assumes you are connected from the webchat client.
The channel has some differences in language then the forums. Here is a quick look.
- “#WP”: Just short for #WrongPlanet
- IRC: Internet Relay Chat is the internet protocol that powers this chat.
- Freenode: The IRC network providing the chatroom.
- Ops: Ops is short for operators, a equivalent of moderators on the forums. You can see a list of them click Ops List on the sidebar.
- -alt: #WrongPlanet-alt is the 16+ unmoderated chat room. You can get to it by typing /join #wrongplanet-alt in your text bar and pressing enter.
- Nick: Short for nickname, like you used on AOL (I know, I said a dirty word. :P)
The first thing you will want to do is change your nick. Think of something unique. Then type “/nick newname” but replace new name with your unique nick. If you get a message that says something about identifying, then you need to pick another nick. In some cases, your nickname will be changed back to something generic within 30 seconds.
The topic is like a bulletin. It give a list of important info to know.
You might be seeing people typing text in the third person and thinking “I want to do that!” Well you can! Type /me followed by a action. e.g. /me jumps would look like “fubar jumps”.
That’s everything. If you would like to add something, this will be a Github repo at