Rick rickm@golden.net writes:
Is there some kind of command-line operation that I can issue that would be equivalent to clicking "Save page" during an edit operation? ... etc
I just had an idea about how to do Save-page from command-lines (and, ultimately, within Emacs).
Aren't there various bots doing updates to Wikipedia? I know there are server-side bots but aren't there also some client-side bots (including bots used by trolls :-|)? Just how do the client-side bots work?
I'm starting to go through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots but I'm not too clear on what code a bot actually uses. If there are easy/preferred/clean approaches, I'd appreciate some URLs (or search keywords).
Or am I mistaken on what bots do and how they do their work? Do bots bypass the browser and, essentially, operate on the command-line? I've never used a bot before so I'm pretty clueless about them.
By the way, I am not interested in creating a bot. I just want to promote my edits from within Emacs. That is, I want to give Emacs users the same abilities that, apparently, bots have.