earwigbot

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

Ben Kurtovic 26e0058ca3 allow a default value for attribute_to_bool(); rework config.xml structure slightly		pirms 13 gadiem
core	allow a default value for attribute_to_bool(); rework config.xml structure slightly	pirms 13 gadiem
irc	sleep before joining and add a mode() function to Connection: thanks DeltaQuad	pirms 13 gadiem
wiki	message cleanup	pirms 13 gadiem
.gitignore	dropping config/ subdirectory in favor of a single config.xml file, located in the bot's root dir, with encrypted passwords instead of a secure.xml file	pirms 13 gadiem
LICENSE	+readme, license file, .gitignore	pirms 13 gadiem
README	capitalization arghalgh	pirms 13 gadiem
earwigbot.py	lots of work on config.py, earwigbot.py, and main.py; TODO: actually parse config files; convert components to new config format; make_new_config()	pirms 13 gadiem

README

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