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Zoia or the Code4Lib IRC bot

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====What does it do?====
The Zoia bot provides commentary, insight, support and diversions to participants on the Code4LIB IRC channel.
Documentation is sparse, incomplete, outdated, and occasionally only in the code of the bot's plugins themselves.
You can interact with Zoia by using commands in the channel.
Bot commands are preceded with an at-sign ('@').
Some examples are on the [http://code4lib.org/irc/faq http://code4lib.org/irc/faq main Code4Lib IRC FAQ page] and more are listed below to get you started.
*Some examples here: [http://code4lib.org/irc/faq http://code4lib.org/irc/faq] and more below. * You If you want to see a list of commands, you can run certain commands to ask Zoia if you are registered. *To registerdirectly: /msg zoia register nickname password.*you can also private msg the bot for running @list and @help.
<pre lang="text">/msg zoia list <zoia> Acronym, Admin, Amazon, Anagram, Anonymous, ArtisanalIntegers, Assorted, Astro, AudioScrobbler, Babelfish, Band, Blame, Calais, Cast, Channel, ChannelLogger, Config, CyborgName, DBpedia, Debian, Delicious, Dict, Disclaimer, Disemvowel, Dunno, Eef, Etymology, FOAF, Filter, Fireworks, Fixit, Games, GasPrices, Gender, GeoIP, Git, Google, Greeter, Helpers, Herald, IPTools, Insult, Internet, IsItDown, Karma, Kombat, (2 more messages)more <zoia> LCSH, Later, Levenshtein, LibraryThing, Linux, Lisppaste, Lolcat, Lolz, LoveHate, MARC, Math, Misc, Motivate, NACO, Nadsat, Nickometer, OCLC, Oblique, OpenDict, Owner, PDPC, Pinky, Pirate, Poll, Praise, Presidents, Quote, Reply, Sarge, Scrabble, Seen, Services, Sing, SocialGraph, StackEx, Stopwords, Tantrum, Todo, Traffic, Translators, TrueTrue, Twitter, TwitterSnarfer, URL, Uberblic, UnglueIt, Unicode, Unix, (1 more message)</pre> Note -- if you are experimenting and learning about commands, it is a good idea to send private messages to Zoia directly (using <tt>/msg zoia ''[command]''</tt>) rather than directly in channel (e.g. <tt>@''[command]''</tt>).Unless, that is, you want everyone to watch you experimenting. ====ExamplesRegistering with Zoia====Certain commands (for instance, ''tweet'') will only work if you have registered your IRC nickname with Zoia.To do that, first send Zoia a '''Register''' command:<pre lang="text">/msg zoia register ''[IRC_nickname]'' ''[password]''</pre> After that, any time you are on the Code4Lib channel and want to use a command that requires registration, first send Zoia the '''Identify''' command:<pre lang="text">/msg zoia identify ''[IRC_nickname]'' ''[password]''</pre> ====Examples====
*@whoami
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