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-Additional IRC commands and bot tasks for EarwigBot
+Additional IRC commands and bot tasks for
+[EarwigBot](https://github.com/earwig/earwigbot). They are included separately
+due to being outside of most peoples' use cases, or because they require
+additional setup aside from the main bot.