On 3/11/06, Daniel Herding <DHerding(a)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.
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Mark
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