Help:Chat

Chat Now

The chatroom is meant to be a safe place to hang out and enjoy yourself while chatting about the wiki. When you first enter, you'll automatically join the mariowiki channel, #mwchat.

Rules

There are a few restrictions we must institute to prevent any trouble.

#mwchat rules

#mwchat is the off-topic channel of the Super Mario Wiki. Feel free to talk about anything as long as you follow the rules laid out below. No spamming. (Stupid Pointless and Annoying Message). Anything that fits this bill will be considered as spam, and its motive of a kick and/or ban. No porn, ROMs, and overly graphic images. Swearing is allowed, but in moderation. If you overdo it, then it will count as spam. No flooding: If you type 5 or more lines consecutively that consist of 4 or fewer words each, you will receive a kick and/or ban. No flaming. This means that you can not insult other users purposefully. This is motive for a kick and/or ban. Inappropriate topics: Don't be too graphic. Nick changes. It is okay to change your nick to whatever you want, as long as it is appropriate and it is clear that you are really you. (Example: Try to have your user name in the nick, or a well-known nickname). No discrimination. We are a multicultural wiki, with users from many countries, races, religions, and even political thoughts. Our chat room should represent  and honor that fact. So please, abstain from making any comment or performing any action that may be discriminatory towards someone. This is motive for a kick and/or ban. No advertising. Advertising is okay as long as it is something related to the MarioWiki. Any other ad will be considered spam. No mini-modding. Basically, don't shout to the mountains that a user deserves a kick or a ban. Tell an operator in query or in a forum PM and they will deal with the issue and don't make a big fuss if you think a user has broken a rule. Listen to the ops. Operators are operators for a reason, they know what they're doing. If they ask you to do something, listen to them. Bans Unlike most other chats, there is no set limit for kicks or bans on the chat room. The penalty for breaking an offense is up to the operator that is enforcing the rule. Ops No Op Abusing: If you see anyone abusing of their op privileges, please contact another op by querying him/her, and tell him/her about this. Op abusing may lead to a demotion from their Op status.

User	Rank	Flags
Super Mario Bros.	Founder	+AFORSVfiorstv
Stooben	Successor	+AORSVfiorstv
Twentytwofiftyseven	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Marioguy1	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Aldo	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Cobold	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Hypnotoad	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Edofenrir	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Gamefreak75	Admin	+AOVfiorstv
Brock	Operator	+AOVfiortv
SonicMario	Operator	+AOVfiortv
Smasher_101	Operator	+AOVfiortv
Turboo	Operator	+AOVfiortv
MrConcreteDonkey	Operator	+AOVfiortv
Crash	Operator	+AOVfiortv
CountBonsula	Operator	+AOVfiortv

Channel Operators (identified by the @ or a star next to their name on the wiki's applet) are in place to kick or ban unruly users. Trusted users will be allowed operator status.

Commands

You are now ready to chat! You have some customization options:

• Text colors. Click on the 'Colours' tab on the bottom of the chat screen to select a text color.  Alternatively, you can use the command /style [number] [number] to choose a text color and background, and the command /style to reset the color back to black with no background color, and you can use /style bold to make all of your words bold and /style underline to underline all of your sentence.  For example: /style bold 4 2 will give you a bold red font with a blue background.  You can see the full list of commands right here.
• Bold, underline, italics. Using the Mibbit client, individual words can be bold/italicized/underlined, and can be used for emphasis.  To bold, use * around the word – *bold*.  To italicize, use / around the word – /italics/.  To underline, use _ around the word – _underline_.
• Private chatting. Click on a user's name in the right-hand side and select "PM" to talk to him or her alone.  It will appear in a separate tab on the bottom row.
• Translation. As we are a multi-cultural community, there is the chance that someone does not know English, or be very good with it.  The Mibbit chat provides a Translation tool.  To use it, click the 'Translation' tab on the bottom of the chat screen to select which language you see and/or which language people see from you.  If used correctly, this tool can allow users to be speaking completely different languages, but still be able to understand each other.

Here are a few of the many commands you can use in the chat:

• /j #[roomname] – join another room by opening another tab on the top row, with #[roomname] being the name of the channel you want to join.
• /nick [nickname] – Another way of changing your name.
• /query [username] – A fancy way of opening a private-message tab.
• /me [blah blah] – A fancy way of referring to yourself (/me goes away results in * [Username] goes away in a red-colored font).
• /away [message] – Marks you as being away, with an optional message stating why you are away. This status will automatically be removed when you say something. If a user's nick is coloured in grey, then that user is away.
• /whois [Username] – Let's you view information about a user.  This information can include what chatrooms a user is in, if they are away or not, if they are identified, and their hostmask.
• /whowas [Username] – Allows you to view the hostmask of a user who has recently left the network.
• /quit [message] – Quits your current chat session with an optional departure message.
• /msg NickServ OR /ns +
  • REGISTER [password] [email] – How to make sure no one can impersonate you, as well as we allow you to be added to the access list and create your own channels.
    • VERIFY REGISTER [nick] [verification code] – Be sure to verify your nick following the instructions Darkmyst sends out to your email in order to complete registration.
  • IDENTIFY [password] – If you registered your name, this is how you enter your password to log in.
  • SET password [new password] – If you want to change your password, this is how you do it. You must identify yourself first.
  • DROP [password] – If you want to unregister your nick, this is how you drop it. Note that any nick not used for 30 days will be auto-dropped.
  • GHOST [nick] [password] OR KILL [nick] [password] – Disconnects an old user session or someone using your nick.
  • VACATION – Puts your nick on vacation, meaning that it triples the time your nick can be inactive from the normal 30 days to 90 days. As soon as you identify using "/msg NickServ IDENTIFY [password]" OR "/ns IDENTIFY [password]" NickServ will automatically remove the vacation status of your nick, decreasing the time it can be inactive to the usual 30 days.
• /clear – Delete all text from the chat window.
• /ignore [username] – Makes the chat not display any messages from the given username. Useful if someone is spamming or bothering you.  This can also be done by clicking the User's name and selecting "Ignore".
• /unignore [username] – Reverses the effect of /ignore.

Here are some commands that an op can use:

• /msg chanserv akick [channel] add [nickname|hostmask] [!P|!T <minutes>] [reason] – Banning someone permanently (!P) or for a set length of time (!T, followed by in minutes, hours ("h"), days ("d") or weeks ("w") - Example: !T 5w ).
• /msg chanserv akick [channe] del [nickname|hostmask] – Removing a ban.
• /kick [nickname] [reason] – Kicking someone from the channel.

Smilies

Notice: the majority of the smilies have been removed from this, as they will not work in the Mibbit chat.

Basic Smilies
:) or :-)	:D or :-D	:(	:O, :-O, :o or :-o	:P, :-P, :p or :-p	;) or ;-)	:s or :-s