User:Zachary/Wikilinker

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Linkbot (Wikilinker, formally Wikinewslinker) is an IRC bot running on the freenode IRC network. It converts [[plain wiki links]] into full URLs, and other useful things (like printing the current time around the world or answering your greatest of questions).

Channels

It is set up to run in the following Wikimedia-related channels:

• #wikimania
• #wikimania2008
• #wikimedia-ca
• #wikimedia-toolserver
• #wikinews
• #wikinews-bots
• #wikinews-en
• #wikinews-fi
• #wikinews-ru
• #wikinewsie
• #wikipedia-fi
• #wikipedia-nl

If you want the Wikilinker in another channel, talk to me on Freenode (my nick is "Zach", and I'm usually in the #wikinews channel).

Commands

Detailed/up-to-date documentation is available here.

•  !addr <hex ip> : takes a hexadecimal IP from CGI-IRC and prints the decimal IP
•  !bit <your question> : answers your greatest of questions, responds with a bit (1 or 0)
•  !date : provides you with the current GMT date
•  !help : gives you help (tells you to RTFM)
•  !q <your question> : answers your greatest of questions, responds with a word (Yes or No)
•  !seen <nick> : replies with when it has last seen a given nick in IRC
•  !source : gives you a link to the source code
•  !stats : tells you how many questions have been answered, and the ratio of Yes:No
•  !sys <command> <parameters> : allows linkbot administrators to change some of the ways the linkbot behaves
•  !time <optional location> : provides you with the current time
•  !tinyurl <whatever URL> : provides you with a http://tinyurl.com/ link as a shortcut to a long URL
•  !weather <ICAO code> : prints the weather conditions at a particular airport
•  !xm <stationnumber> : provides you with the currently playing song on a particular XM Radio station

About

Linkbot is free software; It is free to use, distribute, and modify under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the license, or (at your option) any later version. This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Source code for Linkbot is here.