From d46717d96db2a62a5a4091b68a72bd0aa66c892f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Kurtovic Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 16:58:53 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] +readme, license file, .gitignore --- .gitignore | 1 + LICENSE | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .gitignore create mode 100644 LICENSE diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0d20b64 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +*.pyc diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9a8be1 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Ben Kurtovic (The Earwig) + + +Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy +of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal +in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to +use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies +of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do +so, subject to the following conditions: + +The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all +copies or substantial portions of the Software. + +THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, +FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE +AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER +LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, +OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE +SOFTWARE. diff --git a/README b/README index e69de29..bd675ec 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +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