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Supybot

Lessons from Supybot

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From personal usage

identify <name> <password> : identify to the bot
load plugin : load a specified plugin
list plugin : list the available command of a plugin
help plugin command : description of how a command should be used
more : continue to print the current buffer
config plugins.plugin.option value : set the value of a variable of a plugin

From discussion in #supybot

config list plugin : list the variables of a plugin
config help plugins.plugin.option : description of what a configuration variable does

Potential work

Wiki(s) through IRC

usage
- hivemind-sb wikisearch PIM term1 term2
  - URL1 URL2 URL3
- PIM and other wikis imported from OwnWikisNetwork (PmWiki implied, easier for search compatibility)
PmWiki with PHP commandline usage at PHP.net
PHP-CLI.com running PHP Scripts that aren't on a web server
testing with wikinumberoffiles

Improvement

chatbot/NLP for queries
- http://wiki.opencog.org/w/RelEx
- http://www.aitools.org/Program_D

KB access

http://DBpedia.org/sparql?
- swig-2009-06-09 supybot-plugins/plugins/DBpedia/plugin.py

Animation plugin

Goal is to motivate discussion by randomly picking a topic from a base off topic when nobody has talked for a while.

(crontab or better, check the RSS plugin as it periodically do checks)

#get the time of the last activity in the channel
tail path/channellogfile | grep -v "-!-" | sed -e "s/ <.*//" > time

if (now()-time) < 10min
	# not need to check for flood as msg would appear in the logs anyway
	random quote

From Supybook

Note

My notes on Tools gather what I know or want to know. Consequently they are not and will never be complete references. For this, official manuals and online communities provide much better answers.