earwigbot

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

Ben Kurtovic 6869900b65 core/config.py can now parse the <irc> tag fully; added some new functions that I pulled out of parse_components(); added stubs for encrypting/decrypting passwords; nitpick in core/main.py		13 lat temu
core	core/config.py can now parse the <irc> tag fully; added some new functions that I pulled out of parse_components(); added stubs for encrypting/decrypting passwords; nitpick in core/main.py	13 lat temu
irc	sleep before joining and add a mode() function to Connection: thanks DeltaQuad	13 lat temu
wiki	message cleanup	13 lat temu
.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	13 lat temu
LICENSE	+readme, license file, .gitignore	13 lat temu
README	capitalization arghalgh	13 lat temu
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()	13 lat temu

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