[WikiCaretakers] IRC log,

[fabian büttner]

Thanks,

looks much better indeed!
Any chance to see your sed script?

regards,
Fabian

> On 19. Apr 2017, at 16:31, Paul Hänsch <paul at fsfe.org> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 11:26:39AM +0200, FSFE wrote:
>>> the IRC log is really hard to read on a webbrowser/mobile devices because
>>> there are somehow no newlines ...
>> 
>> I'm going to copy here our wikicaretakers team. I'm guessing you mean the
>> IRC log related to the Husting of the Fellowship representatives?
>> 
>> I don't know if it's possible, but maybe there are some ways in which it can
>> be formatted in the wiki to make it more accessible.
> 
> Assuming you are talking about
> https://wiki.fsfe.org/Activities/Election/FellowshipElection_2017#Log
> 
> I have run this through a sed script to reformat it as definition list, which
> should look much better.
> I think it was right of the original author to put this as code block, and it
> is correct behaviour of the automatic formatter to not insert automatic line
> breaks in code.
> Since I am not aware of any standard format for chat logs, and since we are
> rarely putting logs like that on the wiki, I do not think it will be worthwile
> to write an automatic wiki parser for chat logs.
> 
> I hope the formatting of the current page will serve as an example for authors
> who want to insert chat logs in the future.
> 
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