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I saw you were looking into making one a bit a go, but I missed the update to your page somehow about it going live. I'd give it it's own account though (it's too easy to make them), so people would know its' edits where just spam reverts and wouldn't confuse it for a real person (name it PizzaBot :P). Out of curiosity, what scripting/programming language is it running in?--[[User:Brandished|brandished]] 12:50, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT) | I saw you were looking into making one a bit a go, but I missed the update to your page somehow about it going live. I'd give it it's own account though (it's too easy to make them), so people would know its' edits where just spam reverts and wouldn't confuse it for a real person (name it PizzaBot :P). Out of curiosity, what scripting/programming language is it running in?--[[User:Brandished|brandished]] 12:50, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT) | ||
: '''Anti-'''spam bot. ;) It's written in Perl, embarrassingly simple, using the perlwikipedia bot framework. Unfortunately, half of the functions of the bot framework uses an API which Valve's old MediaWiki version does not have. :/ The MediaWiki CPAN Package is able to work without API, so this would probably be better provided the bugs it supposedly has don't get in the way or have been fixed in the meantime. I first tried [http://www.google.com/search?q=ActivePerl ActivePerl] (Perl for Windows, free) and then [http://www.google.com/search?q=Cygwin Cygwin] (Linux environment for Windows, free). Cygwin is a bit overkill, I only installed it because I had no clue and couldn't figure out how to install perwikipedia on ActivePerl. If you want to try creating your own bot, go [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot#Developing_a_new_bot here]. --[[User:Pizzahut|pizzahut]] 13:18, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT) | |||
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The Spam Bot
I saw you were looking into making one a bit a go, but I missed the update to your page somehow about it going live. I'd give it it's own account though (it's too easy to make them), so people would know its' edits where just spam reverts and wouldn't confuse it for a real person (name it PizzaBot :P). Out of curiosity, what scripting/programming language is it running in?--brandished 12:50, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)
- Anti-spam bot. ;) It's written in Perl, embarrassingly simple, using the perlwikipedia bot framework. Unfortunately, half of the functions of the bot framework uses an API which Valve's old MediaWiki version does not have. :/ The MediaWiki CPAN Package is able to work without API, so this would probably be better provided the bugs it supposedly has don't get in the way or have been fixed in the meantime. I first tried ActivePerl (Perl for Windows, free) and then Cygwin (Linux environment for Windows, free). Cygwin is a bit overkill, I only installed it because I had no clue and couldn't figure out how to install perwikipedia on ActivePerl. If you want to try creating your own bot, go here. --pizzahut 13:18, 22 Jul 2008 (PDT)