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generate formatted IRC logs
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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!


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Severity: enhancement

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 1:49 AM
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but indeed this should be probably either announced or linked somewhere