A Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot
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  1. v0.4 (unreleased):
  2. - Migrated to Python 3 (3.11+). Substantial code cleanup.
  3. - Migrated from oursql to pymysql.
  4. - Copyvios: Configurable proxy support for specific domains.
  5. - Copyvios: Parser-directed URL redirection.
  6. - Copyvios: General parsing improvements.
  7. - Copyvios: URL exclusion improvements.
  8. - Copyvios: Removed long-deprecated Yahoo! BOSS search engine.
  9. - Wiki: Fixed not sending Content-Type header in POST requests.
  10. - IRC: Moved default server from Freenode to Libera.
  11. - IRC: Remember joined channels across restarts.
  12. - IRC: Added !listchans.
  13. - IRC > !stalk: Added modifiers to change message format or filter messages.
  14. v0.3 (released March 24, 2019):
  15. - Added various new features to the WikiProjectTagger task.
  16. - Copyvio detector: Improved sentence splitting algorithm; many performance
  17. improvements.
  18. - Improved config file command/task exclusion logic.
  19. - Wiki: Added logging for warnings.
  20. - Wiki: Added OAuth support.
  21. - Wiki: Switched to requests from urllib2.
  22. - Wiki: Updated some deprecated API calls.
  23. - Wiki: Fixed Page.toggle_talk() behavior on mainspace titles with colons.
  24. - IRC > !cidr: Added; new command for calculating range blocks.
  25. - IRC > !notes: Improved help and added aliases.
  26. - IRC > !remind: Added !remind all. Fixed multithreading efficiency issues.
  27. Improved time detection and argument parsing. Newly expired reminders are now
  28. triggered on bot startup.
  29. - IRC > !stalk: Allow regular expressions as page titles or usernames.
  30. - IRC: Added a per-channel quiet config setting.
  31. - IRC: Try not to join channels before NickServ auth has completed.
  32. - IRC: Improved detection of maximum IRC message length.
  33. - IRC: Improved some help commands.
  34. v0.2 (released November 8, 2015):
  35. - Added a new command syntax allowing the caller to redirect replies to another
  36. user. Example: "!dictionary >Fred earwig"
  37. - Added unload() hooks to commands and tasks, called when they are killed
  38. during a reload.
  39. - Added 'rc' hook type to allow IRC commands to respond to RC watcher events.
  40. - Added 'part' hook type as a counterpart to 'join'.
  41. - Added !stalk/!watch.
  42. - Added !watchers.
  43. - Added !epoch as a subcommand of !time.
  44. - Added !version as a subcommand of !help.
  45. - Expanded and improved !remind.
  46. - Improved general behavior of !access and !threads.
  47. - Fixed API behavior when blocked, when using AssertEdit, and under other
  48. circumstances.
  49. - Added copyvio detector functionality: specifying a max time for checks;
  50. improved exclusion support. URL loading and parsing is parallelized to speed
  51. up check times, with a multi-threaded worker model that avoids concurrent
  52. requests to the same domain. Improvements to the comparison algorithm. Fixed
  53. assorted bugs.
  54. - Added support for Wikimedia Labs when creating a config file.
  55. - Added and improved lazy importing for various dependencies.
  56. - Fixed a bug in job scheduling.
  57. - Improved client-side SQL buffering; made Category objects iterable.
  58. - Default to using HTTPS for new sites.
  59. - Updated documentation.
  60. v0.1 (released August 31, 2012):
  61. - Initial release.