On 03/03/2011 05:47 AM, richardcavell@mail.com wrote:
I've made about 15,000 edits to English Wikipedia manually. Recently I had the idea of writing a bot to do a few things automatically. I'm writing it in C (C99) on an Ubuntu machine.
The choice of programming language is all yours. But why are you writing new software instead of using the existing pywikipedia framework? Aren't you bound to reinvent a lot of wheels? Have you tried to solve your tasks with pywikipedia?