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

Ben Kurtovic f4219ffad0 More work on the early stages of wikitools: tools.get_site() returns an actual Site object, thanks to tools.functions._get_site_object_from_dict(). Site objects now have a working (but primitive) .api_query(), .get_page(), .get_category(), and .get_user(). Page objects now have a working .get(), for getting page content from the API. Category is now a subclass of Page, and has its own .get_members(), which returns a list of titles. Still need to implement proper namespace logic in pages.		vor 13 Jahren
core	clarify what verify_config() returns	vor 13 Jahren
irc	don't give a status report to ourselves when we join the AFC channel	vor 13 Jahren
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	vor 13 Jahren
wiki	More work on the early stages of wikitools:	vor 13 Jahren
.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)	vor 13 Jahren
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	vor 13 Jahren
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	vor 13 Jahren
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	vor 13 Jahren

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.