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Your ideas are wanted for a new name for AboutUsBot so as to be less confusing with AboutUs:Bot. Please comment in User_talk:Nathan/AboutUsBot#Ideas if you can!

AboutUsBot is an Eggdrop-based robot which sits on our IRC channel. You can play with it and do the following things.

WikiLinks

• It will automagically expand WikiLinks done like this:
  • [[link]] or {{link}} will be auto-expanded to their full URLs.
  • The above links prepended with "w:" will link to the corresponding articles/templates on Wikipedia.
  • "m:" - meta.wikimedia.org.
  • "commons:" - Wikimedia Commons.
  • "wikit:" - Wiktionary.
  • "s:" - Wikisource.
  • "q:" - Wikiquote.
  • "b:" - Wikibooks.
  • "n:" - Wikinews.
  • "wikispecies:" - Wikispecies.
  • "c:" - Centiare.

Bear in mind that since this addition was written for Wikipedia projects in mind, that's why it contains a lot of Wikimedia-related links. Links to other wikis and projects can be added and removed very simply.

Google

You can issue Google queries (only the top result will be output to the channel) by saying !google yoursearchterm

Check idle time

Only the channel operators (and Nathan) can use this feature.

Say "!idle" in the channel and the bot will tell you who's been idle (inactive in the channel) for how long.

Country

"!country two_character_country_code_here" - the bot will expand the two-character country code to its full country name.

DNS resolution

"!dns some_ip_address_here" - the bot will attempt to resolve the IP address you supply into its fully qualified hostname.

If there is a feature you think would be handy, please talk to AboutUsBot's owner, Nathan