Piuda is the IRC bot for ##conlang on freenode. Its name comes from the Naeso term “piuda mivo”, which means “bot”.

The bot currently provides current information (which is needed because it doesn't fit in the channel topic), and logs the channel for the statistics page. which is at

The following commands can be activated either using the prefix -, by highlighting the bot, or talking to it in query.

• addinfo — the text is added as a new line to the list of info messages
• ety - Gives the etymology of word. If n is present, gives the nth etymology, with the default one being the 0th etymology. If there are less than n-1 etymologies, gives the last one.
• fixnick — forces the bot to change nick to Piuda
• help — the bot starts talking about itself
• help commands - the bot lists commands available
• help - gives help for command
• info — the bot replies with all the info messages
• memo — the bot saves the text as a message to the user, and sends it to them in query the next time the talk in the channel
• quit (botops only) — the bot quits
• rminfo (botops only) — the bot removes the n-th line from the list of info messages (start counting at zero)
• stats— the bot replies with the link to the channel statistics