English Wikisource had a bot which would perform OCR on request by a user when the user pressed a button in the Wikisource website interface.

Is that like what you are trying to achieve?

I think it used categories as a work queue. JavaScript placed the page in a category, and the bot picked up the page from the category and removed it from the category once the bot task had completed.

Some tools use a wiki page as a register of bot commands to be executed by the bot.

If you need more complex interaction between user and bot via JavaScript, the bot will likely need to provide a http listener that the JS and bot can communicate via.

*Hi*

*How do I build a python bot/script with JavaScript for the frontend
(ideally as Wikisouorce gadget <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gadget>).*

*Project is for gsoc2014. So it should be something which can be live on
wikisource gadgets.*


*Thanks*

*---*

*Rohit Dua*
*8ohit.dua*
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