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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