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For what use? E.g. add a footer to some categorized pages,^[1] add some wikilinks,^[2] archive in moving old talk to subpages,^[3] edit categories,^[4] manage templates.^[5]

↑ add_text.py ↑ replace.py ↑ archivebot.py ↑ category.py ↑ template.py

Frameworks and interfaces for bot development[edit]

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MediaWiki API is for convenient access to machine-readable data.

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meta:Bot

Tip for wiki admins:

Manual:User rights management for setting bot access.
robots.txt tells external web robots how to index your site.
Extension:MassEditRegex - to allow regular expression edits through a special page.

[1] _text.py

[2] replace.py

[3] rchivebot.py

[4] tegory.py

[5] template.py

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