Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wikia/@comment-26053026-20150129174857/@comment-5939974-20150206131851

Yes, there's a way. The user Monchoman45 created a set of Javascript tools that allow you to set your status as away from keyboard or active, kick members as a chatmod and have group private messages instead of just one-on-one. Also, you can set a ping list to notify you with a sound alert every time someone mentions the ping phrase, which you can set.

The code is available here, copy that to your global.js page. Warning: the hacks only work if you click "join the chat" as a link, not when you visit Special:Chat via browser URL.