User:Shadow1/perlwikipedia
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[edit] What is this thing?
perlwikipedia is a bot framework, similar to pywikipedia, except it's written in Perl.
[edit] Does that mean you're trying to make pywikipedia obsolete?
Of course not! Pywikipedia is a valuable bot framework (the Tawkerbot2 code, as well as most major bots, is written using it), however, if Perl coders are confined to using Python, they can't customize and extend the code to fit their needs. With an open-source framework written in their "native language," they'll be able to better write bots in a language that they are comfortable with, and even customize the framework to fit needs it wasn't originally imagined for.
[edit] How complete is perlwikipedia?
perlwikipedia is currently able to:
- Retrieve the wikitext of articles.
- Retrieve revision ids of articles.
- Retrieve the history of articles.
- Revert to old revisions of articles.
- Warn users.
- Grab the Recent Changes log.
- Perform What links here functions.
- Purge page caches
- Retrieve a listing of all pages in a category
In addition, perlwikipedia is almost completely cross-wiki, so you can write bots for virtually any MediaWiki wiki with it.
[edit] Where can I get this?
See the Perlwikipedia project page at Google Code.
One can also use SVN to download the code by running this command (assuming you have SVN installed):
svn checkout http://perlwikipedia.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ perlwikipedia
[edit] Who wrote perlwikipedia?
perlwikipedia is maintained by Shadow1, Jmax-, and Oleg Alexandrov.
[edit] Can I help?
Sure! Just leave a message on Shadow1's talk page, and he'll get in touch with you. Please note that developers of perlwikipedia must have Google Code accounts in order to commit changes to SVN.
