Tim Starling (t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au) [041111 22:05]:
Not all of them use IRC. We can provide technical support to help arbitrators install a client on their computer. We could also set up a CGI:IRC gateway, or make a proxy available, if it proves to be necessary. The idea of setting up a CGI:IRC gateway for all the Wikipedia channels has been suggested before, we could probably just do that, if we have the hardware resources.
CGI:IRC is awkward to use, though, and may be offputting. Is there a free software Java applet similar to (non-free) jIRC (from jpilot.com)? jIRC is pretty usable in my experience. (Presumably we can find one that works under Kaffe, to keep the free software purity ;-)
- d.