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).

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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

[edit] 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.