Some collaborative projects use it to facilitate communication between project members. Wikipedia and Conservapedia both use '''freenode''' (chat.us.freenode.net) as their IRC server.
The philosophy of IRC and of collaborative projects in general seems to mesh:
*“Catalysts try to resolve problems, not through the use of authority and special privilege, but by fostering consensus, gently nudging participants in the direction of more appropriate behavior and by generally reducing the level of confrontation rather than confronting users with problems…[while] Channel and network administrators may be catalysts…[a]n important characteristic of successful catalysts is the infrequency with which they wear authority or invoke special privilege.” [http://blog.freenode.net/ (February 23rd, 2007 by Donna "SportChick" Crawford)]
==Some IRC channels==
* #conservapedia
* #wikipedia
==IRC HelpCommands==
Most clients still use the old slash commands of irc. Here are a few.
#To get onto freenode.net