Office hour transcripts?

Started by LociOiling

LociOiling Lv 1

Of course, the chats are preserved in Discord, although they might be a little hard to find, and not everyone uses Discord for one reason or another.

Long ago, I believe I found a Python script that could work on the chat logs generated by IceChat, so a user-generated transcript is also a possiblity. Can't remember when or why I did this previously, seemed like a good idea at the time, I guess. (Edit: the tool is irclog2html.py. Old transcripts even provide a link to the tool.)

LociOiling Lv 1

OK, mean time, I have rediscovered the secrets of the last go-round, the results are here on the wiki: 3 June 2023 - Office hour with rmoretti.

Our friend FolditDiscordBot messes with the format expected by the irclog2html tool. IceChat uses a funky timestamp format (hh:mm.ss), and adds oddball characters around web links. Some manual edits corrected these issues.

I found irclog2html can generate MediaWiki tables, which is perfect for the Foldit wiki.

Another area requiring manual fixes is long lines, which get broken into two messages. I went through and combined the broken lines, which happened several times in rmoretti's answers.

My plan is to work backward through the chats, it should be relatively quick now that I have a process.

I'm also thinking about rehosting all the chat logs that were left behind on the old server, but I'll knock off the 2023 office hours first. The old transcripts are still available on old.fold.it.