Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Enable Mediawiki API Edit
I'm trying to make bot that automagically applys Code Tag Fixer in all Tasks using Mediawiki API (http://www.rosettacode.org/w/api.php), but Mediawiki API "action=edit" is disabled, so i can't edit pages automagically with Mediawiki API, making a bot impossible.
Can some admin enable this function? --Guga360 18:09, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
PS: Ignore my poor english.
- Because of the potential for abuse, I'm going to need each bot to have its own authentication credentials, and I'll grand API privileges on a per-bot basis. Create an account for your bot and give me the details. I'll work on it when I get home.--Short Circuit 19:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- OK, bot created, i'm waiting to be put in Bots group. --GugaTagFixer 19:49, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- My bot is almost 98% complete, I create a lot of functions. But now, the function is
- <lang python>apply("Article_Title",get_token("MyBot","MyPassword")</lang>
- I need just iterate apply() in allpages. --Guga360 21:43, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
While we're on the subject, does anyone think we should have Help:Adding a Bot? Does it need to be that formal? Will we have that many bots? --Mwn3d 20:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- No, Wikipedia already has a "Creating a bot" article, it's the same thing. A Help:Adding a Bot can link to a Wikipedia article. Or something else.--Guga360 21:43, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- I expect we'll have as many bots as are well-behaved, do useful things, and don't completely suck up my slice's CPU and bandwidth allocation.--Short Circuit 23:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
My bot is 100% complete, i'm waiting my bot to be put in Bots group. --GugaTagFixer 00:44, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- I'll add it in a moment. In the mean time, would you mind posting the entire code of your bot (sans its actual login name and password) in its user page, so other folks can review and comment? --Short Circuit 01:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
- It isn't working. "Unrecognized value for parameter 'action': edit", What happened? And, yes i'm logged in, because i can list 5000 pages perfectly.