Help:Bots/gl

Un bot é un programa informático que consulta ou actualiza as páxinas da wiki de forma automática. En xeral, os bots empréganse para tarefas de mantemento repetitivas, que de suporían demasiado traballo feitas de forma manual polos usuarios.

O desenvolvemento e manexo de bots recae habitualmente fora do ámbito dos roles dos usuarios normais, xa que require experiencia en programación e debe facerse de forma coordinada cós administradores da wiki.

Por defecto, as edicións de bots non se amosan en    :.

Framework and interface for bot development
Bots do not access the wiki through the normal graphical user interface. MediaWiki has an API (Application Programming Interface) available for this purpose. An API is a protocol for standardized communication between two computer programs. Check for more information.

To access a wiki through the API a bot must have a user account, which has been granted 'bot' permissions.

pywikibot
Pywikibot provides a framework for the development of bots, which are commonly used to perform maintenance tasks such as adding a footer to some categorized pages (add_text.py), adding some wikilinks, moving old contents of talk pages to subpages , editing categories , or managing templates.

wiki-java
wiki-java is a lightweight Java framework for bot/application development and can be used to perform various tasks, such as uploading files, adding text to articles, parsing templates, basic I/O, etc. The library also comes with simple, but powerful standalone bot methods that can be readily utilized by a programmer.

Chris G's botclasses
Chris G's botclasses compose a PHP MediaWiki bot framework hosted at the toolserver.

Extension alternatives

 * Extension:MassEditRegex provides an alternative way to perform mass edits using regular expressions, through a special page in the wiki. Only admins can normally use this extension.
 * Extension:ReplaceText is another option.