Hi, gang.
#wikipedia-bag on Freenode is a little slow, so I think the list might give me some more action.
I'm a 33 year old doctor obviously with too much spare time on his hands. 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. I've been coding for 5 days and my bot ought to be making test edits within a couple of days.
Is anyone else out there using C, or am I the only one crazy enough?
Richard
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?
Hi,
I set myself the task of learning Standard C and this is a project that allows me to use that knowledge creatively. Sure I'd love to learn python too, but I haven't yet.
It's taken me only 5 days to get to a point where my code successfully test edits in a sandbox. I'll certainly comb through the python bot framework for ideas before putting my bot through BRFA.
Richard
-----Original Message----- From: Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se To: Wikimedia bot editors discussion wikibots-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 3:07 am Subject: Re: [Wikibots-l] Introducing myself
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?
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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