It would be nice to have a bot on #foswiki.
Flooterbuck is my favorite, as it's highly customizable, and easy to teach it something, and very very useful (try #perl on MagNet? for a demo, purl is this kind of bot).
Also, we need to host this. Not sure the foswiki.org server is the best place...
Might also use it to log the channel. Better 2 loggers than one, in case one gets disconnected.
-- Babar - 23 Nov 2008
Here is what the old bot had, according to QBFreak still need TODO: run bot as a service or from a cronjob to make sure it always stays up.
-- WillNorris - 27 Nov 2008
I don't know how flooterbuck works, but with mozbot it dumps a lot of useful output to the console. I usually run it through screen so it continues to run on when the console disconnects but you can also connect and see the output at any time.
-- JasonHill - 27 Nov 2008
added Foswiki* InterWiki? links
-- WillNorris - 03 Dec 2008
added
- handle inter-wiki links, so you could type Foswiki:Community/InternetRelayChat in conversation, and it would spit out the URL, so you could refer people to topics easilly without the URL
- find you the most recent line in Colas' log when you asked for it, which was handy for walking into a conversation
- monitor a specially formatted wiki topic and update you when it changed (just an RSS reader with a little code added)
- monitor the SVN commits by querying the repository
- some handy stuff that it came with like spell checking and an infobot module so you could teach it basic answers to questions
- and some silly stuff like insults
- http://foswiki.org/Development/FoswikiBotRss
- http://foswiki.org/Development/WebRss
- http://trac.foswiki.org/timeline?changeset=on&max=50&daysback=7&format=rss
- http://foswiki.org/Tasks/WebRss
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