Editing a wiki

[yaka]

On Aug 18, 6:07 pm, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
> KillSwitch <gu.yakahug... at gmail.com> writes:
> > Is it possible to edit a wiki page with python, including logging in
> > to edit the page, and inserting text into the edit box, etc.
>
> If you are talking about MediaWiki (the software behind Wikipedia),
> it already has an API for which there are several Python clients.
> See:
>
>    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
>    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code
>
> If you are looking to use Python (or any other language) to
> automatically edit Wikipedia itself, you need approval for that.
> See:
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_policy

It's actually a wiki owned by a friend.