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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
<Sean.Colo...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> <pumiceh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> > <jtitts...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
> > --------------------------------

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Should now work at: http://wikieducator.org/api.php On 1/14/08, Jim Tittsler <jtittsler-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is the MediaWiki API <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API> available on > WikiEducator? I tried http://wikieducator.org/w/api.php (and > query.php) and a few variants without success. > > > > -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate

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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 <pumiceh...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > <jtitts...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 > --------------------------------

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