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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Background: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/django-rest-framework/YJ6J3j
 
 Project roadmap: [https://github.com/tomchristie/mkdocs/wiki](https://github.com/tomchristie/mkdocs/wiki)
 
-IRC channel: #mkdocs on freenode.
+IRC channel: `#mkdocs` on freenode.
 
 [travis-image]: https://travis-ci.org/tomchristie/mkdocs.png?branch=master
 [travis-link]: https://travis-ci.org/tomchristie/mkdocs