Googology Wiki:IRC

A generic Freenode IRC channel dedicated to googology may be found at ##googology. It's a more stable alternative to Wikia's built-in chat feature. The channel was founded by members of the wiki, so it's pretty much affiliated with us as far as we care.

It can be accessed using any IRC client of your choice. If you don't have one, you can use the online client.

Cloaking your IP
If you're not familiar with Freenode or IRC, it's worth noting that your IP address is given out to other channel users by default! To avoid this, do the following steps:


 * 1) On the web client, connect with your desired nickname and click on the Status tab in the upper left. (You don't need to have Status open, but this is for safety reasons -- if you slip up, your private data won't be given out to other Freenode users.)
 * 2) Type: /ns register    . This is for confirmation and account recovery. Freenode will not spam you.
 * 3) Open your email and confirm.
 * 4) Type /join #freenode and on that channel, politely request an unaffiliated cloak. Wait for it to be granted.
 * 5) From this point, every time you open up the client, check "Auth to server" and enter your password. This can also be done manually with /ns identify    .

Note that you must be over 13 years of age to register with Freenode, but this restriction applies to the wiki as well, so whatever.