Help:Chat

Chat is a feature that allows instantaneous communication between users on a wiki. Anybody with a Wikia account can join chat by clicking the "" or "" button in the right navigation rail.

You can also access chat by visiting Special:Chat on the wiki, clicking the "Chat" option on the Wiki Navigation as well as add an entry point to chat on any page you would like to see it by using the tag.

Once connected, type text and hit your keyboard's return key to send the message to the room.

User options
Clicking on a name in the user list will open a menu. You can see the user's name, edit count, join date as well as access their talk page / message wall, contributions and send them a private message. Private message opens a new private message room.

Administrators and chat moderators have additional options:
 * Give ChatMod status (admins only) gives that user the ability to kick or ban people from the chat.
 * Kick will kick that user out of the chat
 * Chat moderators can't kick other chat moderators
 * Chat moderators can't kick Administrators
 * Chat moderators can't kick Wikia Staff
 * Chat moderators can't kick Helpers
 * Chat moderators can't kick Volunteer Spam Task Force
 * Administrators can kick chat moderators
 * Administrators can't kick other administrators
 * Ban will allow you to ban the user for a specific set of time (chosen from a drop-down menu) as well as allow you to state a reason why. Bans can also be set from the User contributions page.
 * Chat moderators can't ban other chat moderators or Administrators
 * Chat moderators can't ban Wikia Staff
 * Chat moderators can't ban Helpers
 * Chat moderators can't ban Volunteer Spam Task Force
 * Administrators can ban Chat moderators and other administrators
 * Administrators can't ban Wikia Staff
 * Administrators can't ban Helpers
 * Administrators can't ban Volunteer Spam Task Force

Private messaging
Private messages are conversations between you and one other user. If you are in a private message room with someone, you have the ability to stop receiving their private messages by selecting "block private messages" in their username menu. This setting is permanent and Wikia-wide until you select "Allow private messages" from their menu in the general chat room.

Chat Moderators
Chat moderators have the ability to kick and ban other users from the chat. To identify a chat moderator, a star will be next to the name in the rail. The chat moderator right can only be given by admins, bureaucrats, helpers or by Wikia staff.

Unbanning
If a user is banned from chat, an administrator or chat-mod can unban directly from the chat, or by going to the user's contributions page and clicking on unban. They will be instantly unbanned and allowed to participate in the chat.

Emoticons
http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035828/messaging/images/a/a2/Emoticon_cool.png http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035827/messaging/images/7/76/Emoticon_batman.png http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035828/messaging/images/1/16/Emoticon_crying.png http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904040556/messaging/images/7/7d/Emoticon_fingers_crossed.png http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035828/messaging/images/e/e2/Emoticon_blush.png http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035828/messaging/images/c/cd/Emoticon_confused.png http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035828/messaging/images/2/28/Emoticon_content.png http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904035827/messaging/images/3/31/Emoticon_happy.png http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904040557/messaging/images/1/1e/Emoticon_heart.png http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904040557/messaging/images/7/7b/Emoticon_hmm.png http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904040557/messaging/images/b/b5/Emoticon_indifferent.png http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110904040558/messaging/images/a/ac/Emoticon_laughing.png

You can use emoticons for chat by entering keyboard shortcuts like :) or (heart) in the chat window. For a complete list of shortcuts available, visit the MediaWiki:Emoticons page on your wikia.

Admins can customise the chat emoticons on their wikis by editing that page. Emoticons can be any standard image file type, and must be 19 x 19px in size. If they aren't that size, they will be scaled to it.

"Me" action
A feature in chat, borrowed from IRC, is the "/me" action. If a user (for example: YourName) preceded an entry in chat with "/me", it would render specially:

would appear as:
 *  * YourName is going to the movies.

Links
Links work exactly the same in Chat as they do in the editor. For example, typing Special:Forum in Community Central Chat results in Special:Forum - the main forum page of Community Central.

You can make shorter links to other wikis by using an interwiki link. For example, typing w:c:starwars in Chat results in w:c:starwars - an easy way to link to Wookieepedia (http://starwars.wikia.com).

You can also link to specific pages using this method. Typing w:c:avatar:Aang in Chat results in a link to the Aang page on Avatar Wiki (http://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Aang).

Other Tips

 * Bored on chat? Check out some awesome tips from DangerousDangerously on.
 * The feature is not available in the Mono-book skin, but Mono-book users can join by visiting Special:Chat?useskin=wikia.