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- EarwigBot[1] is a Python[2] robot that edits Wikipedia.
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- Development began, based on the Pywikipedia framework[3], in early 2009.
- Approval for its fist task, a copyright violation detector[4], was carried out
- in May, and the bot has been running consistently ever since (with the
- exception of Jan/Feb 2011). It currently handles several ongoing tasks[5],
- ranging from statistics generation to category cleanup, and on-demand tasks
- such as WikiProject template tagging. Since it started running, the bot has
- made over 45,000 edits.
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- A project to rewrite it from scratch began in early April 2011, thus moving
- away from the Pywikipedia framework and allowing for less overall code, better
- integration between bot parts, and easier maintenance.
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- Links:
- [1] http://toolserver.org/~earwig/earwigbot/
- [2] http://python.org/
- [3] http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/
- [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EarwigBot_1
- [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot#Tasks
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