A Wikipedia bot (a computer program designed to make automated edits to Wikipedia). It is written in Standard C - C99 - using the standard libraries and libcurl.

This project has not met its long-term goals, and has been abandoned.

Features

  • Accepts more than 20 command line options
  • Written entirely in Standard C (C99) that compiles unmodified as C++
  • Uses libcurl for all HTTP requests
  • Copes well with connection failures, Wikipedia server lag, involuntary logouts
  • Robust error detection and informative error reporting
  • Tasks are entirely customizable
  • (Optionally) regularly updates its own status page
  • (Optionally) regularly checks a special shutoff page that any Wikipedian can edit
  • (Optionally) automatically logs all activity to disk

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Categories

Wiki

License

BSD License, GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3), MIT License

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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux

Languages

English

Intended Audience

Developers, Information Technology

User Interface

Command-line

Programming Language

C

Database Environment

SQL-based

Related Categories

C Wiki Software

Registered

2011-03-09