earwigbot

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

Ben Kurtovic db0b125897 specify core/main.py as an absolute path, so we don't have to run 'python earwigbot.py' from within earwigbot/, but we can also do 'python /path/to/earwigbot.py'		13年前
core	wrap parse_config() to catch ConfigParseExceptions and report them to the user cleanly; some minor doc changes.	13年前
irc	sleep before joining and add a mode() function to Connection: thanks DeltaQuad	13年前
wiki	message cleanup	13年前
.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年前
LICENSE	+readme, license file, .gitignore	13年前
README	capitalization arghalgh	13年前
earwigbot.py	specify core/main.py as an absolute path, so we don't have to run 'python earwigbot.py' from within earwigbot/, but we can also do 'python /path/to/earwigbot.py'	13年前

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