Libera Chat
Libera Chat is an IRC network used by the Wikimedia community since May 2021. Community maintained documentation on using IRC, maintaining channels, and related questions can be found at m:IRC.
See also m:IRC/Instructions#Instructions for channel ops.
Becoming ops in a channel
/msg chanserv op #channelnamehere
Also /msg chanserv deop #channelnamehere when you are done doing ops things.
Check the access list for a channel
/msg chanserv flags #channelname
Add someone to an access list with a pile of rights
You probably want to give someone what everyone else in the list has. Here's an example though:
/msg chanserv flags #channelnamehere nicknamehere +votsriRfA
Invite someone to a channel (permanently)
This will allow someone to join an invite-only channel. You should use /whois nick to look at how their nick is currently set and use that as the template for the command.
/mode #mediawiki_security +I $a:<account name>
Invite someone to a list temporarily
From within the channel itself:
/invite nicknamehere
Ban someone from a channel
/mode #channelnamehere +b *!*@hostnamehere
You can use wildcards in place of part of the hostname.
Some of those flags
(Stolen from [oxin.jottit.com/freenode_chanserv_commands])
- +v - Enables use of the voice/devoice commands.
- +V - Enables automatic voice.
- +o - Enables use of the op/deop commands.
- +O - Enables automatic op.
- +s - Enables use of the set command.
- +i - Enables use of the invite and getkey commands.
- +r - Enables use of the kick, ban, and kickban commands.
- +R - Enables use of the recover and clear commands.
- +f - Enables modification of channel access lists.
- +t - Enables use of the topic and topicappend commands.
- +A - Enables viewing of channel access lists.
- +F - Grants full founder access.
- +b - Enables automatic kickban.
Freenode IRC network
Prior to May 2021, the movement's IRC channels were on the w:Freenode IRC network.
Wikimedia used to host a freenode server: dickson.freenode.net.