stwalkerster/eyeinthesky

Wikimedia RC Stalk bot

Hi! I'm Simon, known across the internet as stwalkerster. I'm a cloud engineer in my day job, and an open source developer and homelab hobbyist in my free time.

I'm the primary maintainer of three open-source projects - Helpmebot (source), Wikipedia's Account Creation Assistance tool ("WACA", or WP:ACC; source), and EyeInTheSky (source), amongst numerous smaller projects which don't see much use. I've also contributed to a number of other open source projects where I've seen something interesting to fix.

Find me

• My website: https://stwalkerster.co.uk
• Email: simon -AT- stwalkerster.co.uk
• Keybase: https://keybase.io/stwalkerster

eyeinthesky's Issues

Add diff-matching stalk node

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=compare&format=json&fromrev=837806815&torev=837819167

We can pull out the IDs from the diff URL of the change. We get back a text blob consisting of a set of HTML table rows.

We need to parse and

Additionally, there is present, and a likely equivalent for added lines.

quick and/or to add a fragment to a stalk

Deprecate Castle.Facilities.EventWiring

Add rate limiting to stalk trigger email notifications

Stop using $a: prefix on usernames

Expand mail to disable logging on certain stalks

Multi-channel capability

Add the ability for a stalk to be active for a set of channels, as well as general multi-channel support, etc.

split config and stalkconfig into two files

so one can be published without the other

User list

User hostname-based list for basic access control

stalk expiry

Allow stalks to expire after a certain time period or at a specific date/time, after which they should be either deleted or marked inactive

fix version info

Last changed date of stalks

Store the date a stalk was last changed, and maybe a git-like hash of the content

Allow using templates from web ui

Split button on new stalk?

multi-user multi-channel

Option to notify by email on every stalked event

Add last trigger time tothe immediatemail notificaktion

add flag checking to stalks too

Track how long a stalk takes to execute, and set sensible fuses

Allow editing templates from web ui

Alert when a stalk is about to expire

Show stalk keyword in notification email

Allow registration and web login in one IRC command

true tree-based criteria for stalks

maybe have a true tree-based criteria for stalks

<stalk flag="foo">
    <and>
        <or>
            <page />
            <page />
        </or>
        <user />
    </and>
</stalk>

Unit tests

• RecentChangesParser.Parse - two throws of FormatException untested.
• MediaWikiApi.GetUserGroups - rightscache retrieval untested
• StalkNodeFactory.NewFromXmlFragment - unknown stalk node type untested
• SNF - InCategory node testing
• SNF - Log node testing
• ConfigFactoryBase - Fail to parse unexpected format
• CFB- comment inside stalk element
• StalkFactory - unix epoch last trigger time
• SF - expiry time testing
• SF - failed parse on email attribute
• SF - failed parse on enabled attribute
• TemplateFactory - expiry duration testing
• SF - failed parse on email attribute
• SF - failed parse on templateenabled attribute
• SF - failed parse on stalkenabled attribute
• RCHandler - OnReceivedMessage
• RCHandler - SendEmail
• RCHandler - SendToIrc
• ConfigFileBase
• TemplateConfiguration
• WebServiceClient
• EmailSender
• EmailHelper
• BasicFlagService
• ConfigurationProvider
• StalkConfiguration
• RecentChange.get_Expiry
• ComplexStalk.IsActive
• ComplexStalk.Match
• ComplexStalk.MailEnabled
• ComplexStalk.set_IsEnabled
• ComplexStalk.set_Description
• ComplexStalk.set_ExpiryTime
• ComplexStalk.set_SearchTree
• Template.MailEnabled
• Template.set_TemplateIsEnabled
• Template.set_StalkIsEnabled
• Template.set_Description
• Template.set_SearchTree
• Namespace: Exceptions
• Namespace: Startables
• Namespace: Startup
• Namespace: Commands

Send an alert to all subscribers when a stalk is modified or deleted

wmf irc dropout not reconnecting

fix colour chars in stalk names

bold/colour chars break stuff.

Follow page moves

*Watch for move events
*Search all stalks for that page name and dynamically replace the nodes with an Or group
*What should we do with partial matches?
*Alerting that this is happening to allow human intervention?

Lose csl completely, just use xml

add XOR gate

count node

matches if above or below a threshold of the sub conditions matches

Mail list of stalked edits to an email address

less than / greater than

add diff checks to the matching

allow a stalk to look at the revision content and the diff when analysing the stalk.

only retrieve the content when needed though

Allow setting watched wiki from web UI

acc command

auto-configures a new ACC stalk

username, page, description, immediatemail, etc

Store last match time

Store the time that the stalk was last matched

Allow setting dynamic expiries from web UI

Improve errors from IRC entry of XML

Alert what has changed to IRC when editing stalk from web

ASP.NET for web UI?

page size match

quick stalk command

command to quickly stalk something

anonymous users flag

colour support

Add colour support to the stalk notifications to make it easier to read, maybe bolding too

Support checking edit tags

descriptions for stalks

Add version checks, and allow updating to a specific tag/branch

Stalk list

Show the current stalk data in an accessible form, including the flag, stalk parameters, etc.

disable stalk logging

Disable the stalk logging on the bot for when nothing should be logged, ie periods of inactivity.