Wikileaks:Chat
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Live chat -- browser interface
Whistleblower? Journalist? Citizen journalist? Wikileaks writer, volunteer, supporter or techie? Get advice and talk with people like you on the Wikileaks secure chat (also good for safe interviews with anonymous sources).
Click "chat" to the right. You do not need to register. page will appear to be "loading" for ever — this is normal as a chat session never "ends". Click into the box at the bottom of the chat page and and start typing. For greater reliability and ease of use, you can install a chat program as described below. Our chat system is designed to work on almost any browser in any country. It has minimal bandwidth requirements and will even work over dialups or mobile phones.
Please be patient and leave the chat window up. Participants are often busy with other tasks. Depending on time of day you may need to wait several hours for a reply. If you can not wait, just login at the suggested meeting times below.
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Using an independent chat client
For greater reliability and ease of use, you can install an independent Internet Relay Chat (IRC) chat program.
Chatzilla
- If you don't already have it, download and install the popular Firefox web-browser: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html
- If you don't already have it, install (very quick!) the Firefox plugin Chatzilla: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16
- Click on ircs://secure.wikileaks.org:9999/Wikileaks (you may like to bookmark it) or (type /sslserver secure.wikileaks.org then /join #wikileaks)
Pidgin
Pidgin is a multi-protocol chat client that supports MSN, Gtalk, AOL, Yahoo, MySpace, ICQ, IRC and many more concurrently.
- If you don't already have it, download and install http://www.pidgin.im/
- add a new acount
- select "IRC" from the drop downlist
- enter a nickname of your choice
- enter the server name secure.wikileaks.org
- click the "advanced" tab
- for the "port" field enter 9999
- click the "use SSL" (encryption) checkbox
- save and connect to the server
- click on the "Buddies" menu
- click on "Join a Chat"
- enter #wikileaks for the room name and click "Join"
Other clients
- enable SSL (encryption). Some older clients do not support SSL.
- connect to secure.wikileaks.org port 9999
- once online type /join #wikileaks
If Wikileaks chat ever goes down (READ!)
If the Wikileaks chat server has a major problem for more than 8 hours duration, Wikileaks will use https://chat.indymedia.org/ as a backup. Failing that, channel #wikileaks on irc.freenode.net
Wikileaks weekly meeting
We meet online each Sunday evening to plan our course of action for the week at 1800 (6pm) GMT (London time without daylight savings). This roughly corresponds to midday in the United States.
Depending how many make the Europe/Americas meeting, there will be equivalent Sunday meetings for Asia/Oceania at 1100 GMT (about 9pm, Sydney time), as described below.
Daily Meeting Times
These are meeting times structured to take place in the middle evening for three sections of the world. Encourage everyone to attend meetings for the other regions as most of our efforts are global. There may or may not be anyone around on a particular day. Please try to stay logged in as long as possible (at least two hours).
The meeting times are:
- The Americas, Europe, Africa & The Middle East (meeting 1)
- 1800 GMT, that is about midday US time (depending on coast), about mid-afternoon south American time, 6pm London and South African time, 7pm western Europe, 8pm eastern Europe and 9pm in western Russia.
- For Asia & Oceania (meeting 2)
- 1100 GMT, that is 6pm Vietnam/Thailand/Cambodia time, 7pm China, 8pm Japan & Korea, 9pm Australian eastern seaboard and 11pm New Zealand time.
The times specified exclude changes due to daylight savings.
Full details below:
Time Zones
See Time Zones for easy to use information.