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I admit I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to IRC, but I'm having trouble connecting to it. Tried with WeeChat and KiwiIRC and got the same error: "LDAP authentication failed". Is it a problem with me or with the server?

@Bcf: The technical documentation is aimed more at sysadmins rather than end users, whereas end-user documentation for the various FeministWiki components is found on FW:Welcome. Still, I added a brief mention to this page of how the server authenticates clients, it's probably good to have it in multiple places.

In KiwiIRC it should be enough to enable encryption (click the padlock icon to make it green) and enter your username and password into the standard fields. (It should switch to port 6697 when you enable encryption.)

In WeeChat, add the FeministWiki via /server add fw irc.feministwiki.org/6697 -ssl and then set the username and password for the connection via /set irc.fw.nicks Bcf and /set irc.fw.password my_password and I think it should work. I haven't tested it though so please tell me if it doesn't work.

BTW you can sign entries on talk pages with "~~~~" (four tildes) which will be automatically turned into a signature, like this. Technician (talk) 04:31, 19 May 2020 (CEST)

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 I admit I'm a bit of a noob when it comes to IRC, but I'm having trouble connecting to it. Tried with WeeChat and KiwiIRC and got the same error: "LDAP authentication failed". Is it a problem with me or with the server?
+:{{reply to|Bcf}} The technical documentation is aimed more at sysadmins rather than end users, whereas end-user documentation for the various FeministWiki components is found on [[FW:Welcome]].  Still, I added a brief mention to this page of how the server authenticates clients, it's probably good to have it in multiple places.
+:In KiwiIRC it should be enough to enable encryption (click the padlock icon to make it green) and enter your username and password into the standard fields.  (It should switch to port 6697 when you enable encryption.)
+:In WeeChat, add the FeministWiki via <code>/server add fw irc.feministwiki.org/6697 -ssl</code> and then set the username and password for the connection via <code>/set irc.fw.nicks Bcf</code> and <code>/set irc.fw.password my_password</code> and I think it should work.  I haven't tested it though so please tell me if it doesn't work.
+:BTW you can sign entries on talk pages with "<nowiki>~~~~</nowiki>" (four tildes) which will be automatically turned into a signature, like this. [[User:Technician|Technician]] ([[User talk:Technician|talk]]) 04:31, 19 May 2020 (CEST)