As the dissapointment from finding out that the famed Rosy-Etta from the well know Google Wave preview video is not in working status, another comes to take her place. Aunt Rosie (named after the authors aunt, not the similarly named bot) can also translate your text into another language. Add her to your wave and start typing. After a few words she will ask you (in your blip) what language you would like the translation to be in. Once a language is chosen she will start the translation. Check out the video below for a demo (its a bit old and the usage has changed so do not use it as a how-to) of how she works and visit her at the Aunt Rosie page on the bot list.

Ask BingyBot a question and sit back and wait for the reply. This bot uses bing.com (not a fan, but whatever) to find the answer to your question. Its uses are trivial for the most part but who does not like having a know it all in the conversation when you need one (my wife, but that is a different story). Check out this video showing its use and then visit the BingyBot page on our bot list.

In an attempt to make the instruction pages as real as possible I had contemplated embedded mini waves into each page to show bots usage. The bad part about that was that the waves would need to be public (anyone could edit and deface them) and that only current wave users could see them. I was trying to avoid having to put screenshots in as that could take a lot of time and most users would not want to go that far. I decided to try my hand at re-creating the blip look with html and css. I think I did a halfway decent job and below is a screenshot of the end result.

Template for the wiki that shows a fake wave

For those who know mediawiki templates, you will have no problem using this one. For the rest, you can just copy/paste the following code and make your small changes.

For bots that respond to your blip with a new blip, use the “wave” template:

{{wave

|trigger=<what you say to get the bot to respond>

|bot=<bots address (eg. bouncy@appspot.com)>

|response=<what the bot said in response>

}}

For bots that edit your blip, use “wave2″ twice as a before and after:

My text:

{{wave2

|bot=<In the first of 2 blips, this will be “Me”>

|response=<In the first blip, response will be what you say to the bot>

}}

Bots change:

{{wave2

|bot=<In the second blip, if the bot edited your response, it would be “Me (and botsname@appspot.com)”>

|response=<This would be what the bot changed your text to>

}}

If anyone has any improvements for this mediawiki template, please feel free to let me know. I am by no means an html/css expert and am more than willing to take hand-me-down suggestions.

I got the wiki setup (and a forum, but its empty right now) and added as many bots (and gadgets) as I could. I currently have 84 bots listed, although I am sure at least a third of them are not working (and will be noted soon hopefully). I also have 23 gadgets listed on there that you can check out. If you have any cool ideas for gadgets or bots, please post them in the forum and hopefully we can get some bored devs to check out your ideas.