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- [EarwigBot](http://toolserver.org/~earwig/earwigbot/) is a
- [Python](http://python.org/) robot that edits
- [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/) and interacts with people over
- [IRC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat).
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- # History
-
- Development began, based on the
- [Pywikipedia framework](http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/), in early 2009.
- Approval for its fist task, a
- [copyright violation detector](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EarwigBot_1),
- 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](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot#Tasks),
- 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.
-
- # Installation
-
- ## Dependencies
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- EarwigBot uses the MySQL library
- [oursql](http://packages.python.org/oursql/) (>= 0.9.2) for communicating with
- MediaWiki databases, and some tasks use their own tables for storage.
- Additionally, the afc_history task uses
- [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/) and
- [numpy](http://numpy.scipy.org/) for graphing AfC statistics. Neither of these
- modules are required for the main bot itself.
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