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Bender is an [[IRC]] bot, owned by [[General Earl]] that resides on '''irc.earthempires.com'''. He is affectionately named after the [[Wikipedia:Futurama|Futurama]] character of the same name.
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[[Category:IRC Bots]]
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[[File:Bender Rodriguez.png|float|right]]
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Bender is an [[IRC]] bot, once owned by [[General Earl]] that resides on '''irc.earthempires.com'''. He is affectionately named after the [[Wikipedia:Futurama|Futurama]] character of the same name. Bender was rewritten by [[iZarcon]] and is now maintained by him.
  
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Bender's main job is to monitor the wiki [[Wikipedia:Rss|RSS]]/[[Wikipedia:Atom (standard)|Atom]] feed on the [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] page. When changes are made, he notifies people in the '''#wiki''' channel of the changes.
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== What did it do? ==
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Bender's main job was to monitor the wiki [[Wikipedia:Rss|RSS]]/[[Wikipedia:Atom (standard)|Atom]] feed on the [[Special:RecentChanges|recent changes]] page. When changes are made, he notifies people in the '''#wiki''' channel of the changes.
  
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== Addressing the Bot ==
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Bender also logged '''#earthempires''' and a script runs (parsing those logs), so we get a channel statistics page, located at [http://irc.earthempires.com/stats http://irc.earthempires.com/stats].  
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Bender's control character is "'''.'''", he will also respond by his name followed by a colon, ie: '''bender: some command'''.
 
  
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==Commands==
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== What does it do now? ==
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=== Helpful Commands ===
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Bender logs '''#earthempires''' for statistical purposes, you can visit [http://irc.earthempires.com/stats http://irc.earthempires.com/stats] to see who's got a motormouth.
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{{warning|This part is under construction.}}
 
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Additionally, he can give people in '''#earthempires''' useful information with a couple of simple commands.
 
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=== Fun and Games ===
 
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{{warning|This part is under construction.}}
 
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He's not all business though. He has some other fun 'features' which are there for everyones amusement.
 

Latest revision as of 19:01, 21 December 2012

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Bender is an IRC bot, once owned by General Earl that resides on irc.earthempires.com. He is affectionately named after the Futurama character of the same name. Bender was rewritten by iZarcon and is now maintained by him.

What did it do?

Bender's main job was to monitor the wiki RSS/Atom feed on the recent changes page. When changes are made, he notifies people in the #wiki channel of the changes.

Bender also logged #earthempires and a script runs (parsing those logs), so we get a channel statistics page, located at http://irc.earthempires.com/stats.

What does it do now?

Bender logs #earthempires for statistical purposes, you can visit http://irc.earthempires.com/stats to see who's got a motormouth.