A Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot

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  1. v0.2 (unreleased):
  2. - Added a new command syntax allowing the caller to redirect replies to another
  3. user. Example: "!dictionary >Fred earwig"
  4. - Added unload() hooks to commands and tasks, called when they are killed
  5. during a reload.
  6. - Added 'rc' hook type to allow IRC commands to respond to RC watcher events.
  7. - Added 'part' hook type as a counterpart to 'join'.
  8. - Added !stalk/!watch.
  9. - Added !watchers.
  10. - Added !epoch as a subcommand of !time.
  11. - Added !version as a subcommand of !help.
  12. - Expanded and improved !remind.
  13. - Improved general behavior of !access and !threads.
  14. - Fixed API behavior when blocked, when using AssertEdit, and under other
  15. circumstances.
  16. - Added copyvio detector functionality: specifying a max time for checks;
  17. improved exclusion support. URL loading and parsing is parallelized to speed
  18. up check times, with a multi-threaded worker model that avoids concurrent
  19. requests to the same domain. Improvements to the comparison algorithm. Fixed
  20. assorted bugs.
  21. - Added support for Wikimedia Labs when creating a config file.
  22. - Added and improved lazy importing for various dependencies.
  23. - Fixed a bug in job scheduling.
  24. - Improved client-side SQL buffering; made Category objects iterable.
  25. - Default to using HTTPS for new sites.
  26. - Updated documentation.
  27. v0.1 (released August 31, 2012):
  28. - Initial release.