Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20140129045228/@comment-122657-20140129194803

I have two different bots in semi-functional operation.

The first is a python-written program that uses command prompt (like DOS) to tell it how to function and what to do. The more complicated page moves were originally setup using this program, as it can do a series of actions easily (Move the major page, move sub-pages, fix appearances).

The second is called AutoWikiBrowser, or AWB. It is a program created and maintained by the Wikipedia community. Inside this program, which has a semi-normal graphical user interface, you can perform all of the actions you normally can for a wiki, and you can create a list of pages to perform these actions on. The limitations are that it cannot do more than one action at a time. You can move a list of pages, or correct a spelling in a list of pages, etc, but you can't do both of those at the same time on the same page without just as much physical effort on the part of the user as doing it 'by hand'. It is much easier to use, maintain, and install, and no programming understanding is necessary to operate it, but it would be very difficult to make it handle these moves very well, if at all.

I'm happy to zip up the files associated with the python bot and email them to anyone. The easy part is installing python and the bot and then running the pre-made scripts. The hard part is if one or more of your pre-made ones breaks, doesn't work anymore, or doesn't do what you want. That's when you need a little bit of programming knowledge to fix it, ideally python.

So there's some more detail for you guys, let me know what you want to do!