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

Ben Kurtovic c7bbb21117 Improvements to Site and User by removing unnecessary API queries. * Site: New _get_logged_in_user() method, name self-explanatory. This acts as a replacement for the former crud in get_user(), which now calls this when the username arg is None. This method will first try to determine our username based on a special cookie in self._cookiejar (cookie.name is self._name + "UserName", e.g. "enwikiUserName"), and will only do an API query if no cookie was found. This removes an API query that is usually only necessary if we are not logged in. * Site: silly bugfix in __init__(). * User: Reverted earlier change to _get_attribute() (addition of raise_exception arg); name() and exists() now use their own code, which is simpler. * User: Calling name() does not do an API query unless force=True, unlike the other "get" methods. * User: .join() instead of .format() because I feel it looks cleaner and is probably more efficient.		13 anni fa
core	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 anni fa
irc	Update AFCStatus and Rights IRC commands per wikitools updates.	13 anni fa
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	13 anni fa
wiki	Improvements to Site and User by removing unnecessary API queries.	13 anni fa
.gitignore	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 anni fa
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 anni fa
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	13 anni fa
earwigbot.py	Modifed the __version__ and __copyright__ strings of earwigbot.py slightly.	13 anni fa

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.