Hi Sean,
I have two things in mind for bots: 1) We recently changed the default margins on our Pedagogical Templates (iDevices) see http://www.wikieducator.org/All_iDevices. Unfortunately, there is one case where the new default margins cause problems. I would like to set up a semi-autonomous bot to search the 1000's of articles that link to the templates and for this offensive case (when the template directly follows a section) replace the default margin with the appropriate one. 2) We are testing a pdf export feature where you can collect WE articles and export them to pdf. However, some of the templates don't export properly. The pdf export has a feature that if TemplateName_print exists it will use it for the export to pdf instead of TemplateName. Thus I would like to find from a list of offending Templates ones that don't have a _print version and create the _print version by substituting in appropriate code. I think this bot would also be semi-autonomous. I hope this makes some sense. Cheers Rob On Jan 18, 9:12 am, Sean C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WikiEducator appears to be running MW 1.12 which should have the API > in it (so it is probably disabled as you implied), but it turns out > you actually can write bots anyway. On LyricWiki.org we haven't > upgraded to the version w/API (and we wrote our own api long before > MediaWiki finished theirs, so there are going to be some filename > conflicts)... anywho... we have a bunch of bots which don't use the > API, you just have to do some screen-scraping tricks in Perl (or > whatever language). > > Here's an example in the wild:http://lyricwiki.org/User:ÜberBot > > Is there something specific you guys are planning to make a bot for? > > Later, > - Sean > > On Jan 14, 3:44 pm, Brent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it would be great if this could be turned on ... as we can't run any bots > > without it from what i understand. > > > brent. > > > On Jan 15, 2008 9:36 AM, Jim Tittsler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is the MediaWiki API <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API> available on > > > WikiEducator? I triedhttp://wikieducator.org/w/api.php(and > > > query.php) and a few variants without success. > > > -- > > --------------------------------http://digitalsynapse.co.nzhttp://greymatter.co.nz > > -------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
