diff --git a/Scrapy-release-procedure.md b/Scrapy-release-procedure.md
index bd2d4e8..4ac453b 100644
--- a/Scrapy-release-procedure.md
+++ b/Scrapy-release-procedure.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ $ git push origin master --tags
    * [Scrapy blog](http://blog.scrapy.org) (Posterous autoposts to Twitter)
    * [scrapy-users group](http://groups.google.com/group/scrapy-users)
  * change `#scrapy` IRC channel topic:
-   * `/msg ChanServ topic Welcome to Scrapy - Say "Hi!" and ask. Latest stable release is Scrapy 0.22.2
+   * `/msg ChanServ topic #scrapy Welcome to Scrapy - Say "Hi!" and ask. Latest stable release is Scrapy 0.22.2`
 
 ## Micro/bugfix releases