Hmm ... papers come from books, which reminds me: Wikibooks has this.

 
Hazard-SJ


From: David Narvaez <david.narvaez@computer.org>
To: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 5:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Paper about pywikipedia?

On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Dr. Trigon <dr.trigon@surfeu.ch> wrote:
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> Hello all!
>
> This is just an idea, but what about writing a paper about the
> framework (may be rewrite, with some adds from trunk) and what it is
> able to do - how it interacts with the mw API and so on and so forth.
>
> This will be a long way away to go still but I wanted to raise this
> idea at least once. In fact I am not an exper in writing papers and no
> IT guy either, but I would be intressted in doing this and I think it
> would be worth doing it.
>
> It should not be a manual, but an overview (may be teaser) for people
> not using it and trying to get a clue what this is about. I think we
> should cover the most intressting techniques we are using/have
> implemented. Everybody intressted could e.g. do "it's" stuff, may be
> 1-5 points to cover or mention.
>
> May be we could post it in the "Computer Science" part of
> http://arxiv.org/ what do you think about this?
>
> Greetings and thanks for (any) feedback!
> DrTrigon

There was this article I once read[0] - it was actually the first time
I learned about wikipedia bots. It could be a good idea to expand on
the content there presented, I actually liked that approach.  It may
be behind a paywall, let me know if that's the case.

David E. Narvaez

[0] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6163451&queryText%3Dwikipedia+bots+environment

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