AVBOT is an anti-vandalism bot for MediaWiki wikis. It is developed by Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada in Python, using pywikibot and irclib.
AVBOT has been working in Spanish Wikipedia since 2008, it has reverted more than 250,000 vandalism edits, and it has several clones managed by other users.
In 2009, this project was awarded with Premio Nacional al "Mejor proyecto comunitario" in the III Concurso Universitario de Software Libre.
- Regular expressions and scoring system
- Blanking edits detector
- Non-notable biographies detector for articles about years
- Warning messages to vandals
- Reporting of repetitive attacks to admins' noticeboard
You can download the source code like this:
In the docs section you can find a manual and other useful texts about AVBOT. There is also a blog at avbot.blogspot.com.
There are two main publications regarding AVBOT:
- «AVBOT: Detecting and fixing Vandalism in Wikipedia». UPGRADE, Volume: 2011, Issue No. 3, July 2011.
- «AVBOT: detección y corrección de vandalismos en Wikipedia». NovATIca, núm. 203, 2010, pp. 51-53.
AVBOT code is GPLv3.
If you want to send any suggestion, reach me at [email protected]. For bugs, you can use the issues section. Thanks.