On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Rob Hooft wrote:
What you describe is one of the robots implemented in
the
pywikipediabot, available via
sourceforge.net:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot
That software does handle redirects and a lot of other
wikipedia-intricacies. If you have any other wishes, we can have a look
at them. You're welcome to join the team and bring in your experience.
Having some experience with Rob's bot (and done some minor coding on it
too), I can say that I can recommend it. It is currently being used on nl:
(by Rob and me) and on da: (by Christian List), while I have also made a
run of it on fy:. For other languages, I would like to hear which languages
would allow the usage of such a bot. If wanted, I can do a trial run on a
smaller number of pages, so people can see whether it is running correctly.
The best thing would be to have an operator (or more) for each language,
but if nobody is willing & able, I would not mind doing several other
languages as well.
There are also some more bots there, among them a bot that is used to help
in doing disambiguation (this one I have been running on en: under username
Robbot). It also contains a library (wikipedia.py) so it can be used for
programming other automatic or machine-aided edits on Wikipedia as well.
Andre Engels