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

Ben Kurtovic 7dc33cb9af Merge branch 'feature/config_rewrite' into develop		13 лет назад
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)	13 лет назад
irc	Merge branch 'feature/config_rewrite' into develop	13 лет назад
lib	simplify exceptions into four classes instead of eight; make error messages more verbose	13 лет назад
wiki	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)	13 лет назад
.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)	13 лет назад
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 лет назад
README.md	convert README to markdown (hopefully)	13 лет назад
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	13 лет назад

README.md

EarwigBot is a Python robot that edits Wikipedia.

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.