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Wikitroid's IRC (internet relay chat) channel is #wikia-metroid, hosted by Freenode. It was founded by FastLizard4 on January 3, 2008. Feel free to join and chat!

NOTICE: This channel is generally for wiki help, not for suggestions or help regarding the content of the wiki. For example, don't be disappointed if there is no one who will walk you through a battle in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, but there will be someone who you can talk to or can get help from about using or editing the wiki.

[edit] Channel Rules

Yes, we have rules, and we expect all users, regardless of access level, to obey all of them [gasp!]. If you do not, you will be warned twice on the IRC channel, at which point you will be silenced, banned, or kick-banned for differing amounts of time depending on the severity of the offense, these times are listed below.

Do not purposely annoy other users. This includes, but is not limited to, all racist remarks and all remarks degrading someone due to their beliefs or degrading any belief or religion. NOTE: Racist remarks may cause a permanent ban from the channel regardless of a warning.
Do not impersonate people.
Operators: Do not abuse your rights and only op yourself when necessary, as in to ban someone, and immediately deop yourself following the operator actions.
Operators: Joke-kicking, the act of kicking someone from the channel as a joke (usually with a funny message) is allowed, however, do not joke-kick a person more than once, only do it to people whom you believe will take it well, do not kick people who are marked as "away", "busy" or the like, and absolutely no joke-banning. Joke banning may result in deopping of yourself.
No major or prolonged use of profanity. Minor profanity words may be used in terms of frustration, instead of a personal offense. If used in a personal offense, the offender will be kicked regardless of a warning and probably banned, considering the damage of the offense.
No references to sexual topics - really, not many people like this, you will probably only be silenced for this
No spamming or flooding of the channel - Spam is annoying. Something will be considered spam if it is repeated several times. Flooding is the act of typing stuff in repetitively and "flooding out" other users. Both actions will trigger an immediate silence or ban, depending on the severity and/or number of offenses.
No abusive actions - Bullying or abusive actions will not be tolerated on the channel.

WARNING: Anyone who is caught reopping a user deopped for disciplinary action will be deoped themselves, all disciplinary deoppings must be handled by the person who deoped the offender.

Yes, we have rules, and we expect all users, regardless of access level, to obey all of them [gasp!]. If you do not, you will be warned twice on the IRC channel, at which point you will be silenced, banned, or kick-banned for differing amounts of time depending on the severity of the offense, these times are listed below.

And now, to lighten up the spirit of the page, the good side of the channel

[edit] Channel Information

[edit] Access levels

[edit] Operators (or Ops)

Ops are people who can ban and kick users, as well as many other things. Op is short for "Operator", and they operate the channel. There are two types of ops: command and access. Command ops generally have an access level of +vVotriA, they can change the topic, ban users, and other basic actions. Access ops have an access level of +vVotrifA or higher, and can, in addition to what command ops can do, can promote other people to autovoice, command voice, command op, or access op. Any administrator, with a registered nick on irc.freenoce.net, can become a command op; any bureaucrat can become an access op, however, they are not made so by default. If you would like to become an op, please let an access op know (you can see them in the list below) so they can promote you. Access ops can promote users: use /msg ChanServ ACCESS #code-snippets ADD <username> <level>, replacing <level> with the flags to set.

[edit] Voiced users

Voiced users are the wiki administrators and bureaucrats. There are two types of voiced users: autovoice and command voice. All administrators, when they supply a valid registered nick to an access op, will automatically become autovoiced, with an access level of +VtriA. The only difference between regular users and autovoice users are that they automatically are given "voice" status upon login, placing a special symbol or icon next to their nick in the username list. All bureaucrats, when they supply a valid registered IRC nick to an access op, are automatically given command voice status, with an access level of +vVtriA. They are the same as autovoiced users except that they can assign temporary voice status through chanserv, however, not autovoice, which requires the changing of an access level, something only an access op can do.

[edit] List of users

Notice: Everyone in the lists below can unban themselves if they are accidentally banned, use /msg ChanServ UNBAN #wikia-metroid to unban yourself. However, this does NOT include those listed below with an access level of +VA, or "bannable autovoice", the result of disciplinary demotion, who can not unban themselves.

[edit] List of Ops

Note that all ops automatically have command voice status

FastLizard4 (talk) - IRC Cloak: wikipedia/FastLizard4 - Access level: +vVotsriRfAF (Channel founder, channel contact, access op)
Armantula513 (talk) - IRC Cloak: wikia/Armanutla513 - Access level: +vVotriA (Command op)
Piratehunter (talk) - Access level: +vVotriA (Command op)
ChozoBoy (talk) - Access level: +vVotriA (Command op)
Freenode Network Staff - All Freenode network staffers have level 10 access, however, are not necessarily wiki administrators. To check, use /whois <nickname>, where <nickname> is the name of the user in question, if "freenode/staff/" appears somewhere in the resulting text (WHOIS result), that person is a Freenode staffer, and again, not necessarily a wiki administrator. This is in place so a staffer can be asked to kick and/or ban and/or silence someone if there are no ops around. IRC hostmasks given access: *!*@freenode/staff/* - Access level: +vVotriA (Command op)

[edit] List of Voiced Users

Note that all ops automatically have command voice status

MarioGalaxy2433g5 (talk) - IRC Nick: MarioGalaxy - Access level: +vVtriA (Command voice)

Administrators and bureaucrats not listed in any of the lists above have not supplied an access op with a valid, registered IRC nick

[edit] Dircbot

Dircbot is a system for managing and commenting bans set on a person. When an op bans someone, the bot will ask said operator to comment on the ban. You simply need to reply with the command /msg dircbot <expiry time> <reason>, where <expiry time> is the time until dircbot should remove the ban, which takes this format:

Time:
	Time should be given in the following format:
	~1h
	THE ~ IS IMPORTANT.
	For 1 hour from now.
	~4h1m4s
	For 4 hours, 1 minute and 4 seconds from now.
	d -> day
	h -> hour
	m -> minute
	s -> second

<reason> is simple, just type in the reason you banned the user. Note: There is no default reason, however, the default expiry time is 30 minutes. When the ban expires, dircbot will op itself and remove the ban. However, if it does not deop itself following the removal of the ban, please deop it if it remains inactive for a period of time after opping itself. In addition, make sure the bot does NOT have voice, if the bot has voice, please de-voice it. This does not affect the operation of the bot. Of course, netsplits and other things may cause dircbot to die every so often, just so you know.

[edit] Wikitroid-RC

Now available on IRC is a live feed of all edits made to the English Wikitroid as they happen! You can use one of the connection methods below to connect to it. The bot Wikitroid-RC (see below) relays every edit made to Wikitroid, thus making the channel useful for those wishing to monitor the wiki's recent changes for vandalism. Clicking one of the connection links below will connect you to both the RC channel and our chat channel, as chatting is not allowed in the RC channel.

Connecting:

If you do not have an IRC client (most users): click here

If you do have an IRC client (such as xChat, ChatZilla, mIRC, or irssi): click here

Wikitroid-RC is a relay bot operated by FastLizard4. It monitors the Wikia Recent Changes feed and relays changes made to Wikitroid (English only) to the IRC channel. Actually, it does this by matching a simple algorithm, so false positives are possible, but unlikely. The bot is written in PHP. Source code is available from User:FastLizard4 upon request. It has not yet attempted to take over the world. That said, it does crash and fail in spectacular and not-so-spectacular ways every so often. Don't bug anyone about it, it will eventually get fixed.

[edit] Flags

This section describes the various access flags and what can be done with them.

        +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.

If you are not a founder, you may only manipulate flags you
have yourself, and may not edit users that have flags you
don't have. For this purpose, +v grants +V, +o grants +O
and +r grants +b.

[edit] Autokick Users

Users listed below will automatically be kicked from the channel when they log on. You must have +r and +f to add an akick.

There are currently no users on the AKICK list

[edit] Important note regarding nickname registration

Note: It is recommended that you register your nickname (required for admins and ops) with NickServ so an op can assign privileges to you and for you to use the privileges. If you don't have or expect these privileges, it is good to register so no one steals your nickname. For more information, type /msg NickServ HELP REGISTER into your IRC client.

[edit] IRC Channel quotes

If you find an interesting quote from the IRC channel, place it below, just remove the datestamps, and use a * before the line and italicize the line to indicate the /me command and separate separate quotes using ---- (four dashes). If you would like to give a description of the quote, do so at the beginning in bold.

Ops, please don't overdo it like I did. You will probably get banned for doing so. (Note: These are consecutive and listed as it actually happened)

=-= Mode #wikia-metroid +o FastLizard4 by ChanServ