Mwbot

mwbot is an IRC bot written by amidaniel to help on the #mediawiki support channel on the freenode IRC network. It also has its own channel, #mwbot. Source code is available at http://amidaniel.com/viewvc/trunk/MWBot/src/com/amidaniel/mwbot/?root=svn.

Quick Help

 * !foo: displays factoid foo
 * !foo | quux: displays factoid foo, addressing the response to user quux
 * !foo is bar: defines factoid foo to be bar
 * !foo alias bar: defines foo as an alias for the factoid bar
 * !foo del: deletes factoid foo
 * @search foo.*: searches for the regular expression foo.* in all factoids
 * @trust host: trusts users on host, especually usefull with IRC cloaks
 * @untrust host: removes trust for users on host
 * @trusted: lists trusted hosts

Feature Requests
Brainstorming sections. No guarantee anyone will ever look at this.


 * Support private messages
 * Automatically search when no exact match is found
 * Automatically trust cloaked user addresses, depending on pattern (something like ^(wikipedia|wikimedia|mediawiki|wikia/))
 * magic factoids for config settings and manual pages: !$wgXXX -> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgXXX