Begiak

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begiak is the irc bot in the #apertium irc channel. Its primary function is to report svn updates to various relevant repositories, but it serves some other purposes too.

Background

Begiak was set up as a phenny bot by conor_f for GCI 2012. It runs on apertium.vm.bytemark.co.uk.

Begiak means "the eye" in Basque.

Repositories monitored

AI Features

  • .at ... lg1 lg2 — Apertium translate
  • .awik — Search for something on Apertium wiki
  • .c — Query Google calculator
  • .ety — Look up the etymology of a word
  • .g — Search on Google
  • .gc — Get the number of results on Google
  • .in — Set a reminder
  • .py — Evaluate an expression in python (This runs as a sandboxed web service, not on your computer)
  • .t — Return the current time
  • .title — Get the title of a link
  • .u — Search for a unicode character
  • .wa — Query Wolfram Alpha
  • .wik — Search for something on Wikipedia
  • begiak: tell nick something — Send a message to nick
  • begiak: "parlez-vous français"? — Translate a phrase (google translate)

Wishlist

  • A PING event for phenny so that the SVN module can truly be a module