[Mediawiki-l] writing a bot ... directest access to articles

[Johannes Feigl]

hi, i'm new in this mailinglist;

i want to write a php-bot for the german wikipedia;
i don't think it's possible the get direct access to the databases,
not only for reading;

so my question is:
what is the most direct access for:
* reading the source of a acticle
* writing/uploading a edited source
* knowing of a artice is a redirect, kategorie or something else

if there is no other possibility i can also access the the editing-
pages in wikipedia and extract the source of a page from there,
but i hope there is also an other way!

please let me know,
thanks, johannes