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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 94848ab0bc wrap parse_config() to catch ConfigParseExceptions and report them to the user cleanly; some minor doc changes. 13 years ago
core wrap parse_config() to catch ConfigParseExceptions and report them to the user cleanly; some minor doc changes. 13 years ago
irc sleep before joining and add a mode() function to Connection: thanks DeltaQuad 13 years ago
wiki message cleanup 13 years ago
.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 years ago
LICENSE +readme, license file, .gitignore 13 years ago
README capitalization arghalgh 13 years ago
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 years ago

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