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

Ben Kurtovic 434863dcd1 Docstrings for everything in Site; some cleanup in Site/Functions.		13 lat temu
core	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 lat temu
irc	Update AFCStatus and Rights IRC commands per wikitools updates.	13 lat temu
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	13 lat temu
wiki	Docstrings for everything in Site; some cleanup in Site/Functions.	13 lat temu
.gitignore	Major improvements to cookies, login/logout, and crosswiki support.	13 lat temu
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 lat temu
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	13 lat temu
earwigbot.py	Modifed the __version__ and __copyright__ strings of earwigbot.py slightly.	13 lat temu

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.