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

Ben Kurtovic edfa1d2d9e beginning wikitools core development with a few skeleton classes and one (nearly) working function, tools.get_site() (doesn't return a Site object yet)		13 lat temu
core	clarify what verify_config() returns	13 lat temu
irc	don't give a status report to ourselves when we join the AFC channel	13 lat temu
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	13 lat temu
wiki	beginning wikitools core development with a few skeleton classes and one (nearly) working function, tools.get_site() (doesn't return a Site object yet)	13 lat temu
.gitignore	switching from XML config to JSON config - it's just much easier to parse and little easier on the eyes (not to mention shorter in length)	13 lat temu
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 lat temu
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	13 lat temu
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	13 lat temu

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.