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From the Wesnoth and Wesnoth-UMC-Dev projects, AI0867 and I have developed an IRC bot/irssi plug-in that has its home set in the channel #wesnoth-umc-dev at irc.freenode.net — a bot designed to deliver general information to IRC users, including a built-in acronyms dictionary derived from the NetBSD wtf script, subversion repository querying for web-compatible views of revision logs, diffs, directories or files, and witty remarks. :-).

But it is really not something I'd recommend to anyone wanting to have an IRC bot of his/her own. When I started it I barely knew Perl; in fact, I learned it along the way. Only very recently I have learned that most of Shikadibot's source code is truly unmaintainable crap that “just works”. I am not planning to rewrite it any soon, but AI0867 is working on his own Python version of it, codenamed “pykadibot”.

Some of shikadibot's functions will also be transferred to umcstat when it is finished.

It has a page of its own at the Wesnoth-UMC-Dev website.

The name is an obvious reference to my favorite Commander Keen characters.

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