wanha 2006-12-23-r155

wanha project is a combination of Perl-script to run a bot on IRC to watch the channel for URLs and another script to run as a web-interface on a HTTP-server. The bot will watch over the channel, friendly and warmly keeping the conversation going, discreetly discouraging people not to paste already pasted URLs again. wanha currently uses PostgreSQL as a database for persistent information, and module "Pg" as the API. Using any other SQL-database should be trivial by modifying db.pl which houses the API to access the data. In addition to Pg, wanha also uses module "Socket". Both should be trivial to find and install if not installed already. The web-interface obviously requires a set-up HTTP-server that can run external application (CGI). Only "Socket" module should be required for the web-interface. The web-interface can take advantage for mod_rewrite.pl for pretty URLs but this is not required. wanha will keep track of pasted links for given channels. The bot remembers who pasted the link first and when. When pasted again, constructive guidance to avoid making the same mistake again is given discreetly to the user. If a link is known to be already seen, this can be told to the bot by placing "w:" or "w!" on front of the link (like "w! http://www.google.com/intl/en/"). When a URL is first pasted it will be inserted in the database. When the same URL is pasted again, things get nasty. a) User who originally pasted the URL will be rewarded with a fame point. b) If the URL was pasted without "w!" marker, user who pasted the URL again will receive a shame point. c) If the URL was pasted with "w!" marker, user will receive a wanha point. Exceptions: - To prevent abuse of using "w!" marker, pasting previously unseen URL with the "w!" marker will be awarded with a cheat score. - User who originally pasted the URL can be repaste it again as many times as (s)he wants. No points are accumulated by this. Whats New in This Release: - This version comes with the actual IRC bot, the HTML GUI, and an Atom feed.. News about miau

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	Linux
Keyword:	Bot,  Chat,  Communications,  Irc,  Pasted,  To Run,  Urls,  User,  Wanha,  Watch
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