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mobibot is the #mobitopia IRC channel bot. It is built on Paul Mutton's PircBot Java-based Framework. mobibot is making extensive use of various open source libraries, including: * Commons CLI * Commons HTTPClient * Commons Logging * Commons Net * delicious-java * Google Tag Library * JWeather * MathEvaluator * Rome * Apache XML-RPC * Twitter4J mobibot was written by Erik C. Thauvin as a replacement for the channel's original ChumpBot. Features mobibot's main functionality is to capture URLs posted on the channel. The URLs are automatically gathered into a publishable RSS feed. Other features include: * Performing calculations * Converting between currencies * Rolling dice * Performing Google searches * Displaying the latest entries on Mobitopia * Performing DNS lookups * Recapping public channel messages * Performing Google spelling queries * Retrieving stock quotes * Displaying the time in various time zones * Listing the users on the channel * Displaying weather information * Posting to Jaiku's #mobitopia channel * Posting to Twitter Some of the internal features include RSS feed backlogs, rolling logs, debugging toggle and much more. If you have any feature suggestions, please post them to the mobibot wiki.

In the page on Thoughs on institutional OER contributions I argue that (among other things) having a good export of material from shared resources (like the OER Toolkit or wikieducator) is important for getting institutions to contribute. How is this requirement met by the platform used for the OER Toolkit and wikieducator?