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

Ben Kurtovic e14897399e Added make_summary() and shutoff_enabled() methods to BaseTask; added config.tasks and config.wiki['shutoff']; added task numbering; wikitools cleanup.		pirms 13 gadiem
bot	Added make_summary() and shutoff_enabled() methods to BaseTask; added config.tasks and config.wiki['shutoff']; added task numbering; wikitools cleanup.	pirms 13 gadiem
.gitignore	framework-y stuff for AFC statistics bot	pirms 13 gadiem
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	pirms 13 gadiem
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	pirms 13 gadiem
earwigbot.py	Reorganizing functions in config.py; store User-Agent and IRC version in config; exception, docstring, and comment cleanup.	pirms 13 gadiem

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.