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

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  1. EarwigBot v0.1 Documentation
  2. ============================
  3. EarwigBot_ is a Python_ robot that edits Wikipedia_ and interacts with people
  4. over IRC_.
  5. History
  6. -------
  7. Development began, based on the `Pywikipedia framework`_, in early 2009.
  8. Approval for its fist task, a `copyright violation detector`_, was carried out
  9. in May, and the bot has been running consistently ever since (with the
  10. exception of Jan/Feb 2011). It currently handles `several ongoing tasks`_
  11. ranging from statistics generation to category cleanup, and on-demand tasks
  12. such as WikiProject template tagging. Since it started running, the bot has
  13. made over 50,000 edits.
  14. A project to rewrite it from scratch began in early April 2011, thus moving
  15. away from the Pywikipedia framework and allowing for less overall code, better
  16. integration between bot parts, and easier maintenance.
  17. .. _EarwigBot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot
  18. .. _Python: http://python.org/
  19. .. _Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/
  20. .. _IRC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
  21. .. _Pywikipedia framework: http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/
  22. .. _copyright violation detector: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EarwigBot_1
  23. .. _several ongoing tasks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot#Tasks
  24. Contents
  25. --------
  26. .. toctree::
  27. :maxdepth: 2
  28. installation
  29. setup
  30. customizing
  31. toolset
  32. tips
  33. API Reference <api/modules>
  34. Indices and tables
  35. ------------------
  36. * :ref:`genindex`
  37. * :ref:`modindex`
  38. * :ref:`search`