[Mediawiki-l] writing a bot ... directest access to articles

Sat Dec 10 19:43:37 UTC 2005

>> so my question is:
>> what is the most direct access for:
>> * reading the source of a acticle
>> * writing/uploading a edited source
>> * knowing of a artice is a redirect, kategorie or something else
>>
>> if there is no other possibility i can also access the the editing-
>> pages in wikipedia and extract the source of a page from there,
>> but i hope there is also an other way!
> 
> There's pywikipediabot which should be able to do anything you want.
> no need to write something new

yes i know, but i cannot speak python (yet) ;)
and i what to write the bot in php, i know php well...
does anyone know here how does pywikipediabot accesses to the
source code?

mfg johannes