[pmwiki-users] Good bots?

[Donald Z. Osborn]

Okay, maybe it is a really dumb question, but I have noted that Wikipedia
has some bots that perform various functions with apparently minimal human
intervention. There's a different scale of need and some tasks that do not
concern me now. But the concept of having something be able to handle
repetive tasks would be helpful.

Another example possibly closer to home for some others: When I changed
skins a while back, I noted that I could better use the top level ! headingr
than in the previous skin, where the top level was !!. So I manually changed
those (!! to !, !!! to !!, etc.). Now the wiki is much bigger and a pesky
task like that would take a ridiculous amount of time. Would there be any
way to change those without going into each page and editing?

Don


On 10/7/07, Donald Z. Osborn <dzosborn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> In this case there are headings that are the same (like a form but not
> sure one could implement that -?) and some content below the headings that
> is the same (one would want an if-then or search-replace kind of mode for
> those - something that might be on 30 or 40 of 90 language pages for
> example).
>
> Actually I was thinking of a search-replace kind of thing, that would
> search the wiki markup in each page and make the replacements in each and
> save.
>
>
>
> On 10/7/07, Kathryn Andersen <kat_lists at katspace.homelinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 04:02:15PM -0400, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:
> > > In any event, this would be extremely helpful for a wiki in which I
> > several
> > > groups of pages that have the same structure and to which some simple
> > edits
> > > or updates are periodically necessary.
> >
> > I'm just wondering... if the edits required are so simple that a bot
> > could do them -- that is, almost identical, yes?  Would it be simpler to
> > have a common page that gets included in those pages?
> >
> > Kathryn Andersen
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