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GitHub - Asudox/lemmy-wikibot-rs: A lemmy bot written in Rust to send summaries of wikipedia articles mentioned in user comments (github.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I made this bot so that users who want to provide a quick summary of the wikipedia article they linked to in their comment can do so just by including a mention of the bot in their comment, and the bot will reply to the comment with the summary.

Currently multiple wikipedia links are not supported.

bot: https://lemmy.world/u/wikibot

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think bots like these should work without having to be mentioned since they're so useful and unobtrusive.

Could you elaborate further on that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like itd be convenient if they worked whenever someone included a wiki link. So people didn’t have to remember to mention its username

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

About that, well, read this conversation I had with another user that mentioned your idea:

https://lemmy.today/comment/5308154

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ohh ok that’s fair. I just feel like barely anyone will remember to use it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That indeed was my concern when I discussed this with the user that suggested this mention-only setup and also in the long text I sent to the user in the convo I sent you.