A Python robot that edits Wikipedia and interacts with people over IRC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot
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  1. EarwigBot v0.4 Documentation
  2. ============================
  3. EarwigBot_ is a Python_ robot that edits Wikipedia_ and interacts with people
  4. over IRC_.
  5. History
  6. -------
  7. Development began, based on `Pywikibot`_, in early 2009. Approval for its
  8. first task, a `copyright violation detector`_, was carried out in May, and the
  9. bot has been running consistently ever since (with the exception of Jan/Feb 2011).
  10. It currently handles `several ongoing tasks`_ ranging from statistics generation
  11. to category cleanup, and on-demand tasks such as WikiProject template tagging.
  12. Since it started running, the bot has made over 250,000 edits.
  13. A project to rewrite it from scratch began in early April 2011, thus moving
  14. away from the Pywikibot framework and allowing for less overall code, better
  15. integration between bot parts, and easier maintenance.
  16. .. _EarwigBot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot
  17. .. _Python: https://python.org/
  18. .. _Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/
  19. .. _IRC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat
  20. .. _PyPI: https://packages.python.org/earwigbot
  21. .. _Pywikibot: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot
  22. .. _copyright violation detector: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/EarwigBot_1
  23. .. _several ongoing tasks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EarwigBot#Tasks
  24. Contents
  25. --------
  26. .. toctree::
  27. :maxdepth: 2
  28. installation
  29. setup
  30. customizing
  31. toolset
  32. tips
  33. API Reference <api/modules>
  34. Indices and tables
  35. ------------------
  36. * :ref:`genindex`
  37. * :ref:`modindex`
  38. * :ref:`search`