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AE1: Andre Engels
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Workshop-AE1 Title: Python Wikipediabot Framework (ID AE1)
- Language: English | License: GFDL
- Room size: medium
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Author[s]: Andre Engels.
- Contact: andreengels@gmail.com [OTRS]
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- (From: The Netherlands | available days: )
The Python Wikipediabot Framework is a collection of tools that can be used to do editing on Wikimedia pages automatically or semi-automatically. It is written in the language Python. The lecture start with a short overview of bots in general, with the advantages and disadvantages of using bots, then zooming in on the Python Wikipediabot Framework, its history and some hints of its inner workings. The main emphasis however will be on actually using the bot. It will be shown what is needed to get the bot to work.
One needs to download both Python and the framework, and install Python. One also needs to create an account for the bot on the Wiki where it will be editing. After creating a simple user_config.py file, one needs to log the bot in with a specific program, and then one can start editing.
The best known bot is the interwiki-bot, which adds or corrects interwiki-links. It can be run in various modes, from largely interactive to fully autonomic. One can run it on a page to make a transitive closure of existing interwiki-links, but also create fully new interwiki-links, using the various "hint"-possibilities. Finally, there are methods to add the backlinks more easily.
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