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

Ben Kurtovic ffc63c38f6 New additions and changes to wikitools, mostly namespaces. Site: Store namespace information in self._namespaces, a dict where key is a namespace ID and value is a list of matching names and aliases; added _get_namespaces_from_api(), namespaces(), namespace_id_to_name() and namespace_name_to_id(); get_page() and get_category() are smarter; Constants: new module, with 18 variables starting with "NS_" that hold IDs of common namespaces, e.g NS_USER = 2, NS_PROJECT = 4; Exceptions: added NamespaceNotFoundError, raised by Site when bad input is given to namespace_id_to_name() or namespace_name_to_id(); User: self.name -> self._name; new name() method returns name from API; dropping "get" from methods that return just a variable; Category: get_members() -> members().		13 年前
core	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 年前
irc	added a bunch of new methods to User in wikitools; added one user-related exception to wikitools; moved .get_rights() call in IRC command !rights to .get_groups(), because get_rights() now returns actual rights (thanks to the API)	13 年前
lib	argh - bugfix in lib/blowfish.py	13 年前
wiki	New additions and changes to wikitools, mostly namespaces.	13 年前
.gitignore	Committing changes made while working on feature/wikitools-core that don't apply to wikitools:	13 年前
LICENSE	new blowfish.py module, some changes in Cryptography(), LICENSE cleanup	13 年前
README.md	update message in README to be a tad more verbose (and to match the github description)	13 年前
earwigbot.py	import lib.blowfish in core.config and decrypt passwords correctly; Exception -> Error in custom config exception names	13 年前

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.