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

Ben Kurtovic f90167e8e7 blowfish.encrypt(key, plaintext), blowfish.decrypt(key, cyphertext); clean up certain things; 'python lib/blowfish.py' is interactive; implement blowfish in Cryptography()		13 lat temu
config	fix	13 lat temu
core	creating backbone for wiki-editing tasks: they can be spawned on a cron-like schedule with config/schedule.py, in response to certain edits in config/watcher.py, or through IRC (not implemented yet - I'll need to figure out permissions); task files are in wiki/tasks/, and the wiki-editing tools (think very simplified pywikipedia) will be in wiki/tools/	13 lat temu
irc	blowfish.encrypt(key, plaintext), blowfish.decrypt(key, cyphertext); clean up certain things; 'python lib/blowfish.py' is interactive; implement blowfish in Cryptography()	13 lat temu
lib	blowfish.encrypt(key, plaintext), blowfish.decrypt(key, cyphertext); clean up certain things; 'python lib/blowfish.py' is interactive; implement blowfish in Cryptography()	13 lat temu
wiki	message cleanup	13 lat temu
.gitignore	ignore pydev's hidden files	13 lat temu
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 lat temu
README.md	convert README to markdown (hopefully)	13 lat temu
earwigbot.py	creating backbone for wiki-editing tasks: they can be spawned on a cron-like schedule with config/schedule.py, in response to certain edits in config/watcher.py, or through IRC (not implemented yet - I'll need to figure out permissions); task files are in wiki/tasks/, and the wiki-editing tools (think very simplified pywikipedia) will be in wiki/tools/	13 lat temu

README.md

EarwigBot is a Python robot that edits Wikipedia.

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.