We detect the languages spoken using simple bigram frequencies. It works suprsingly well. If the language is unknown or unsupported we don't analyse the channel.
2: Which programming languages you use?Irchiver bots are made with Python, statistical models with C and preprocessing with C++. Our first web crawlers will be in Perl. Quite diverse (:
3: Do you have a dedicated IRC server for logging?Not yet. We might sponsor a server for an IRC network if it helps.
4: Do you have a public CVS?Not yet. We will provide it as soon as we can.