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With multi-user Chat, in the following MUC mentioned, are marked with Jabber the in which several users can converse at the same time.

Similarly as in the Internet Relay Chat a Chatraum can have different status (visibly, password hides protected etc.) and the involved ones the role of the participant, visitor or moderator take (similarly as in the IRC the operator, Voice etc.).

However the MUC has many advantages opposite the IRC. Thus one goes in the MUC with its world-wide singular JabberID on-line, which could not be occupied by someone else. Thus the MUC does not need pedantic services (like e.g. NickServ) around users clearly to identify to be able. Besides areas (Channels) without detours over Bots (like e.g. ChanServ) can be registered in the MUC. MUC has even an optional feature the discussions server-laterally without any offered to along-log. In addition the different rights are linked by Usern in an area (owner, operator, speech-entitled, readentitled, banished) with the JabberID of the respective user, whereby area non as in the IRC - from others "“taken over"” or banished users, after change the host and the pitch name the area again to enter to be able. Around anonymity to protect one can select oneself in the MUC (optional) any name, which is then sent instead of the JabberID to normal participants. Owners and operators can see the JabberID however, what is also necessary around the rights users in the area to change.

Development

MUC is the last branch of a set of Jabber minutes. Original Groupchat minutes, on which the today's multi-user conferences in common areas are based, were extended by administrative functions and called Conference. This officially not adopted extension was revised and finally in a Jabber Enhancement Proposal of formuliertJabber software Foundation: '' JEP-0045: Multi-user Chat '' version 1.20, 8 September 2005.

So that new users have if possible few problems in the Chat, became the practice of the functions and actions in the JEP-0045: Multi-user Chatdie possibility production of implementing commands in the IRC style (e.g. /msg, /kick, /join) or over context menus of the Clients make available.

New functions

  • The Chatserver can provide when desired a log file over the area (e.g. log file of wikipedia@conference.jabber.org).
  • Present ones in a Chat can have different privileges.
  • Dependent on the privileges a user can write into an area or not.
  • Dependent on the privileges a user can change the reference/the Subject of an area or not.
  • Dependent on the privileges a user other users can kicken or banish or also not.
  • On the privileges a user can see the Jabber addresses of other present ones dependent or not.
  • Dependent on the privileges a user can extract the speech right from other users or not.
  • The number of the present ones in a Chatraum can be limited.
  • A Chatraum can also continue, if he became to leave from all present ones.
  • A Chatraum can be visible or hidden.
  • A Chatraum can be password-protected.
  • A Chatraum can be limited in such a way that he only from members will enter can.
  • A Chatraum cannot to be set on, thus for everyone the JID of the present ones see anonymous can.

The role and rights of a present one

Everyone in a Chatraum possesses a role (Role) in this. The three possible roles thereby are: Visitor (Visitor), participant (Participant) and moderator. A participant has thereby all rights, which also a visitor possesses. The moderator possesses also all rights some visitor or a participant possesses.

If one enters a Chatraum, then one is assigned to a role automatically. In a unmoderierten Chatraum one receives the role of a participant immediately, i.e. one may write in the area. In a moderated Chatraum one receives first the role of a visitor and can only write if a moderator permits this by the fact that it makes one participant. The role in a Chatraum remains only so long, as one is in this Chatraum. If one leaves a Chatraum, then all changes at the role are rejected. (Exceptions of this rule result from the affiliation, those are in the following explained.)

Visitor

  • He can see, what is written in an area.
  • It can change its status (Presence) in the area.
  • It can change its pointed names in the area.
  • It can send private messages to others in the area.
  • It can send invitations to other users for the Chatraum (can be limited to moderators).

Participant

  • It can write messages in the area.
  • It can change the topic (Topic/Subject) in areas (this right can be reduced to moderators however also).

Moderators

  • It knows visitors or participants from the Chatraum schmeissen (Kick); not however different moderators.
  • It can make a visitor a participant.
  • It can make a participant a visitor.
  • He sees the Jabber addresses of all present ones, even if the area is as anonymous configured.

The affiliation of a person

Beyond that everyone possesses the area affiliation concerned (Affiliation). Contrary to the role the affiliation remains, if someone leaves a Chatraum. If it enters an area again, then it possesses thus again the same affiliation as before.

The following associatednesses exists: More impossible (Outcast), no (special) affiliation (NO Affiliation), member (Member), administrator (Admin) and owner (Owner). As is the case for the roles all associatednesses high-posed possesses also all rights of the weaker associatednesses.

Impossible one

An excluding does not possess the right the Chatraum to enter (it gebannt).

no affiliation

A person without (special) affiliation possesses the following rights:

  • It knows an area entered (it is this area is configured as "“only for members"”).

Members

A member has in addition the following additional rights:

  • It can enter also an area, which is configured as "“only for members"”.
  • Even if it a moderated area enters gets it the role of a participant at least (is called he is from the outset talk-entitled).

Administrators

An administrator has in addition the following additional rights:

  • It can others to members carry or to members this affiliation again take.
  • If it in-loaded in one as "“only area someone configured for members"” is assigned to this person automatically the affiliation as a member. (The invitation must take place according to MUC minutes, an invitation according to old minutes has this effect not.)
  • It can make others (those administrator or owner are not) excluding, i.e. refer these durably the area.
  • It has the role of a moderator in a Chatraum always.
  • It can assign and take the role of a moderator to others.

Owner

An owner has in addition the following additional rights:

  • It can change the configuration of a Chatraumes.
  • It can assign the affiliation of an administrator or an owner to others and remove these again.
  • It can delete an area.

Software

Still each Jabber Client does not support all functions listed above. Here a list with Clients the MUC (nearly) completely support:

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