earwigbot

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

Ben Kurtovic 4e115464e3 capitalization fix (blame ignorecase = true in .git/config)		pirms 13 gadiem
config	moving secure_config to a default location, also adding a check to see if it's been filled out in main.py	pirms 13 gadiem
irc	capitalization fix (blame ignorecase = true in .git/config)	pirms 13 gadiem
.gitignore	adding secure_config back in to gitignore	pirms 13 gadiem
LICENSE	+readme, license file, .gitignore	pirms 13 gadiem
README	+readme, license file, .gitignore	pirms 13 gadiem
bot.py	massive cleanup and moving a lot of functions to their own files; creating two new classes to store irc msg data and irc actions	pirms 13 gadiem
main.py	moving secure_config to a default location, also adding a check to see if it's been filled out in main.py	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