WikiRC

WikiRC is the IRC bot that posts the recent changes feed in the #wiki channel on irc.sylnt.us.

Documentation

• Uses beanbot to output a UDP stream from the wiki.
  • Line 119 in beanbot.py is modified so that 'IDENTIFY' is in lowercase.
• Cloaked as Soylent/Bot/WikiRC.
• In /home/sylnt/wikirc on Beryllium.
• Configuration including NickServ password is in /home/sylnt/wikirc/beanbot.conf
• Running as funpika using screen -S wikirc python beanbot.py.

Wiki configuration

From LocalSettings.php:

$wgRCFeeds['irc'] = array(
    'formatter' => 'IRCColourfulRCFeedFormatter',
    'uri' => 'udp://localhost:1338', // Not the port actually being used
    'add_interwiki_prefix' => false,
    'omit_bots' => true,
);