On 3/11/06, Daniel Herding DHerding@gmx.de wrote:
Mark Wagner wrote:
I'm working on a bot to deal with the flood of no-source and untagged
images
on the English Wikipedia. My current design calls for, once a day, downloading the upload log for the previous 24 hours, then checking each image description page and adding a template as appropriate.
Sounds useful. Are you using the Python Wikipedia Bot Framework? If so, we should add it to the repository as soon as your script is working.
I probably should have mentioned that I'm using Perl, with a framework based on the code that Pearle uses to access Wikipedia.
Is Special:Export faster than starting an edit, or
is there some other method?
Using Special:Export is much faster because it allows you to load several pages at the same time. So you need much less requests to the server. Especially in this case, where you don't need edit tokens and stuff for most of the pages.
Sounds like the best way to go, then. Thanks.
-- Mark [[en:User:Carnildo[[