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A Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot
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Ben Kurtovic 77c541a513 Accept gzipped data and decompress it in api_query(). 13 years ago
core Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools: 13 years ago
irc Update AFCStatus and Rights IRC commands per wikitools updates. 13 years ago
lib argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py 13 years ago
wiki Accept gzipped data and decompress it in api_query(). 13 years ago
.gitignore Major improvements to cookies, login/logout, and crosswiki support. 13 years ago
LICENSE new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup 13 years ago
README.md update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description) 13 years ago
earwigbot.py Modifed the __version__ and __copyright__ strings of earwigbot.py slightly. 13 years ago

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.