User:DragonBot (usurped)/DesignDocs

Design Documentation Introduction DragonBot is a hyrbid IRC/Wikipedia bot built to facilitate the analysis of useful statistical information on Wikipedia, and provide support in the maintenaince of pages related to the output of such statistical information. Scope DragonBot's scope is to get simple statistical information from Wikipedia. It can then use it's heuristics to perform simple analysis of this information. It has an Extensions module which would allow for users to program their instances of DragonBot perform more intensive tasks at their discresion. Functions IRC Module Connect / Identify / Drop Say / DelayedSay / Emote Listen / ListenForSpecific Whois / Idle Whois Op / Deop / Kick / Ban / Unban Voice / Devoice / Access Topic / Modes Cloak / FloodExempt / Flood / StopFlood / FloodProtect Wikipedia Module LogIn / LogOut GetPage / GetSectionOnPage / GetDiff / GetHistory / GetCategory GetListCount / GetVotes / GetLength / GetLinksHere / GetWordCount WritePage / WriteSection Block / Unblock / Delete / Undelete / Sprot / Prot / UnProt The bot does not have admin access, will not have admin access, nor does it's creator. These functions are included entirely for extensions - for other bot authors that wish to make an "adminbot" off the dragonBot core.. CheckTalkPage / GetRequester / GetRequest / GetTalkMessage ClerkTalkPage / ProcessRequest / AcknolwedgeRequest / AskForProperFormat Statistics Module CountContribs / CountContribsToArticle / CountContribsToNamespace CountChanges / CountReverstions / CountMinorEdits / CountUserMinorEdits CountNumArticlesMade / CountNumStubsMade / CountNumLargeEditsMade CountVandalism / CountSpam / Count3RR / CountIncivility / CountBlocks IsSock / FindSockCase / CountConfirmedSocks HasBeenInMediation / CountMediationCases / CountMediationRefusals HasBeenInArbCom / CountArbComCases / CountBans CountByRegex Heuristics Module DeterminePercentageBadEdits / DeterminePercentageVandalism / DeterminePercentageSpam DeterminePercentageDisruptive / DeterminePercentage3RR / DeterminePercentageIncivil CompareUsers / CompareUsersOnArtice / CompareUsersDisruption / CompareBlocks CompareEdits Extensions Module CheckExtension / LoadExtension ExtensionRawIRC / ExtensionRawListen ExtensionGetDiff / ExtensionGetWPPage / ExtensionWriteWPPage ExtensionCreateVariable / ExtensionGetVariable / ExtensionSetVariable Programming Methodology Coding Standards Modules Extensions Failsafes External Links