+readme, license file, .gitignore

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+*.pyc

LICENSE

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+Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Ben Kurtovic (The Earwig)
+<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User: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.

README

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+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