Pywikipediabot

Pywikipediabot is a Python framework for writing robots to crawl MediaWiki sites using the MediaWiki API and screen scraping techniques.

Configuration

 * 1) install latest build of Python
 * 2) download and extract the latest build of Pywikipediabot
 * 3) in your wiki site, create a new bot user
 * 4) the naming convention used is
 * 5) change preferred skin for your bot to Monobook
 * 6) create wiki  in   subdirectory of Pywikipediabot folder (see below for sample file)
 * 7) insert your wiki's information (i.e., its name and URL) where specified
 * 8) to find special namespaces for your wiki, run the following query through your wiki's API:
 * 9) create  by running   in command line
 * 10) enter the family, language, and username you will use
 * 11) create   by running   in command line (optional)

Usage

 * 1) run   in command line
 * 2) provide password to the username specified in
 * 3) run desired Pywikipediabot script

Bus Stop Knowledgebase System Files

 * [[Media:Bswiki_family.txt|bswiki_family.py]] : rename extension to
 * [[Media:uploadDir.txt|uploadDir.py]] : script used to iterate through directory and upload image to wiki