On 4/30/06, FreeAll Support support@freeall.org wrote:

Hello all...

Does anyone knows where can I find information about writing (or copying) some VERY SIMPLE bots? (Like switching common spelling mistakes and so on...)

You should have a look at the pywikibot a.k.a. pywikipedia, which is a python framework for writing bots which run against mediawiki sites.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interwiki_bot/Getting_started has general information with a focus on using it with wikipedia,

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipedia_bot_on_non-wikimedia_projects has info on using it for non-wikimedia sites using mediawiki.

I did some work with this a year or so ago, and haven't kept up. It does require using the python language, but python has a fairly easy learning curve. -- Rick DeNatale

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