Greetings all,

Some time ago GeorgeMoney wrote me a nice script to do some basic checking on cloak requests (see [[m:IRC cloaks]]). This system stood the test of time, but it was observed that some improvements could be made by some coders. I am pleased to announce that a new system has now been put into production that should speed up requests by doing more automatic checking and thus eliminating many common requests. Additionally, translation of the interface is possible and thus we can make things easier for those who do not speak English or where it is not their first language - the old system did not have this.

Translations are not really done at present, but the system in English is very much ready for use so go take a look: http://stable.ts.wikimedia.org/wmfgcbot/ - hope you like the castle.

At this point I would like to extent humble gratitude to [[m:User:Martinp23]] and [[m:User:Kalan]] (enhydra) for coding the IRC bot and web components of this service respectively. They have worked tirelessly to get this working while I just sat back and fired off suggestions for improvements in a naive fashion. We will be releasing the source when it has been cleaned up; a combination of C# and PHP.

Thanks,

Sean