From d3abfc3370e30925d3f7110cb8d5e2ff7ca81bcb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Kurtovic Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:52:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] convert README to markdown (hopefully) --- README | 20 -------------------- README.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 README create mode 100644 README.md diff --git a/README b/README deleted file mode 100644 index 54e2260..0000000 --- a/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,20 +0,0 @@ -EarwigBot[1] is a Python[2] robot that edits Wikipedia. - -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. - -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. - -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 diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fc4c81 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[EarwigBot](http://toolserver.org/~earwig/earwigbot/) is a +[Python](http://python.org/) robot that edits Wikipedia. + +# 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. + +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.