wikiwatch

With wikiwatch you can monitor anonymous edits made in the Wikipedia and match the source IP address of the edit with a known list of IP ranges to assign them to a specific organisation,company,etc. and send a Toot or Tweet.

This tool is meant as a successor to edsu/anon, where we switched from using the IRC channel for getting updates, to the new EventStreams.

We mainly built this tool to migrate our own bots:

@bundesedit (Twitter,Mastodon)
@euroedit (Twitter,Mastodon)
@landesedit (Twitter,Mastodon)
@politikedit (Twitter)

But if you also run a bot with this tool, we would love a PR with the name and link added to this list from you :)

Migration from edsu/anon

If you previously used the anon tool, you can use the convertRanges.py tool, to convert the json syntax of the old ipranges file to the new syntax used by this tool.

Get Mastodon credentials

Choose a Mastodon instance (There are servers specifically for bots like e.g. botsin.space)
Create an account
Go to <serveraddress>/settings/applications and create a new application
Give it only the write:statuses scope
Click on your application to get the client key, client secret and access token
Add a mastodon section to your config file (check the example config)

As soon as the bot finds a mastodon section in the config, it will start sending toots.

Get Twitter credentials

Sign up for a Developer Account over here
Go to the Projects&Apps Overview and create a new project
At the last step click "New app" and configure the new app inside your project
Click the black button labeled "App settings" to go to the settings page of your new app
Click "Keys and tokens" in the top navigation
Click "Generate" in the box labeled "Access Token and secrets"
Add a twitter section to your config file (check the example config) and paste the values from the popup (They will only be shown once on the website!)

As soon as the bot finds a twitter section in the config, it will start sending tweets.

Usage

Take the config-example.json and copy it to config.json and addapt to your needs. If you don't plan on using Twitter or Mastodon, you can completly remove the whole block from the config. Depending on the number of organisation you want to monitor, you can either put the IP ranges directly into the config file under organisations or put them in a seperate json (this way you can publish them publicly) and provide the path to the json in organisations_file.

Then either take the compiled binary from the Github releases or download the Docker container:

Standalone

./wikiwatch -config ./config.json -loglevel INFO

or take the example systemd unitfile from this repo and deploy it.

Docker

docker run --rm -v ${PWD}/config.json:/config.json ghcr.io/codemonauts/wikiwatch

With ❤ by codemonauts