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

Ben Kurtovic 7bbffaed92 cleaning up existing task skeletons and making task_name class-wide instead of instance-wide		pirms 13 gadiem
core	switching from XML config to JSON config - it's just much easier to parse and little easier on the eyes (not to mention shorter in length)	pirms 13 gadiem
irc	tweaking aggregate algorithm to better match {{AFC status}}; cleanup and docstringing on methods	pirms 13 gadiem
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	pirms 13 gadiem
wiki	cleaning up existing task skeletons and making task_name class-wide instead of instance-wide	pirms 13 gadiem
.gitignore	switching from XML config to JSON config - it's just much easier to parse and little easier on the eyes (not to mention shorter in length)	pirms 13 gadiem
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	pirms 13 gadiem
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	pirms 13 gadiem
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	pirms 13 gadiem

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.