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

Ben Kurtovic 26d1bfffdf Merge branch 'develop' into feature/wikitools-core		pirms 13 gadiem
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irc	Update AFCStatus and Rights IRC commands per wikitools updates.	pirms 13 gadiem
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	pirms 13 gadiem
wiki	Bugfix in user.name() and user.exists().	pirms 13 gadiem
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LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	pirms 13 gadiem
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	pirms 13 gadiem
earwigbot.py	Modifed the __version__ and __copyright__ strings of earwigbot.py slightly.	pirms 13 gadiem

README.md

EarwigBot is a Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC.

History

Development began, based on the Pywikipedia framework, in early 2009. Approval for its fist task, a copyright violation detector, 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, 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.