Far from being interested about #irc protocol in general, my interest is focused on <a href="http://irc.wikimedia.org">irc.wikimedia.org</a> read-only channels, and on parameter segment of specific rows of specific channels (but I see that all channels follow a similar pattern).<br>
<br>My idea is to use my very basic listening bot to select rows, to parse parameters and to write them on a file. End of irc bot work. Another cron script will read (and delete) output file and operate on the list of new/edited pages. Consider that tasks I&#39;m implementing do not require an immediate revision of pages by the bot; on the contrary, it&#39;s more efficient, IMHO, to wait some time after an human user edit, since often human editors don&#39;t use PreView and find something to fix as they see the result of their edit. <br>
<br>So, considering only the last edit of a page in an interval of 10-15 minutes, many unuseful edits by bot can be avoided.<br><br>It&#39;s something very far from &quot;async programming&quot;, I guess: a primitive approach, but IMHO it should run. <br>
<br>Alex<br>