Hello
I started to write a Wikipedia Eclipse Editor Plugin and would like to know, if there is a XMLRPC or SOAP interface (in the future) to read/update Wikipedia articles. If yes, is there alread a Java API available? If no, is it possible to update multiple wikitexts through the HTTP forms (with the httpclient.jar API) or is this regarded as spamming?
On Nov 17, 2004, at 3:22 AM, Klaus Hartlage wrote:
I started to write a Wikipedia Eclipse Editor Plugin and would like to know, if there is a XMLRPC or SOAP interface (in the future) to read/update Wikipedia articles.
Not currently. There is an experimental read-only SOAP interface in CVS, which may or may not be kept or expanded in the future.
If yes, is there alread a Java API available? If no, is it possible to update multiple wikitexts through the HTTP forms (with the httpclient.jar API) or is this regarded as spamming?
See bot policy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
There's a suite of Python-based tools you might take a look at: http://pywikipediabot.sf.net/
Also see the jEdit Wikipedia plugin: http://www.djini.de/software/wikipedia/index.html
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