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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 e45103085b fix stupid bug 13 years ago
config set standard nick and on-connect channel joins 13 years ago
irc adding an old commands file from the previous version of EarwigBot, for reference when developing new commands; it's not used by the bot itself 13 years ago
.gitignore adding secure_config back in to gitignore 13 years ago
LICENSE +readme, license file, .gitignore 13 years ago
README +readme, license file, .gitignore 13 years ago
bot.py fix stupid bug 13 years ago
main.py moving secure_config to a default location, also adding a check to see if it's been filled out in main.py 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