Last modified: 2013-07-09 22:44:21 UTC
The raw ASCII of IRC logs is hard to read. This limits the appeal of IRC office hour logs and general IRC channel logs, yet WMF uses them a lot for communications, e.g. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs> The Python package irclog2html converts IRC logs into something much nicer to read. Compare e.g. <http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/%23wikimedia-office/20130620.txt> with <http://piramido.wmflabs.org/misc/ReleaseProcessRFP_IRC_log.html>. Maybe the IRC channel logging infrastructure could generate HTML logs alongside the text logs using this. An alternative is to get Extension:SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi or some other MediaWiki extension to handle IRC log format. That would work for logs pasted into a wiki page and perhaps it could fetch text from the logs directory for ad hoc log display. Thanks for the bots infrastructure!
do you know we have http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/html/ all the time? :D
but indeed this should be probably either announced or linked somewhere
Heh, thanks. I updated https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wm-bot#Files_and_logs and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours#Office_hour_logs , not sure where else it's relevant.
