Ping Re:
https://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Python_and_Wikimedia_bots_workshop_Oct_2013
Pinging bot interested folks on this session. We are happy to juggle
the date to suit work and school diaries, so please do give feedback
on the page if October is no good for you.
This session applies to any Wikimedia project, so if you want to
create an interesting weekly analysis of Wikipedia articles in
multiple languages, fancy creating a super house-keeping bot for the
Welsh Wiktionary or want to reliably upload and categorize 100,000
images to Commons without protests from the regulars, these are all
good cases to discuss. Python gives you the (free) tools to pull in
data from any internet source, so in the field of open knowledge these
techniques are not limited to Wikimedia projects (I used the same
methods to pull metadata from the Ministry of Defense API and the
XenoCanto birdsong API).
I know from past pub discussions that Roger always wanted to do some
bot scripting, Andy could do with smarter ways of batch processing
audio files and that Rich has and endless wealth of experience to
share. Chip in on the registration page with your thoughts and
suggestions.
Thanks,
Fae
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