Programming bots on Wikimedia projects

Skills needed for the course

• English language (mandatory)
• Using contemporary computers (mandatory)
  • Using MS Windows (supported)
  • Using Unix-like operating systems (active) (supported)
    • Using GNU/Linux: Debian or Ubuntu (active) (supported)
    • Using other GNU/Linux distribution (supported)
    • *BSD operating systems (supported)
    • MacOS X (and higher) (supported)
  • Tools (mandatory)
    • GNU tools or equivalent for your operating system (active) (supported) (mandatory)
    • Subversion (active) (supported) (mandatory)
    • ...
• Programming (mandatory)
  • Introduction to programming (mandatory)
  • Programming languages (one of them) (mandatory)
    • Python (active) (supported)
    • Perl (supported)
    • C#
• Introduction to Wikimedia and Wikimedia projects (mandatory)

Course topics

• Paths
  • Pywikibot (active) (supported)
  • Perlwikipediabot (supported)
  • C# and the .NET Framework
• Interwiki bots and other simple actions
  • Writing a simple greeting bot for MediaWiki (C# and .NET approach)
• Hello, world! on all Wikimedian projects
• Localization
• ...

Legend

• (mandatory) -- knowledge is of vital importance for the course; if it has subcategories and subcategories don't have "mandatory" template, this means that you may choose one of the options;
• (active) -- course is active;
• (supported) -- course is supported, but not active; this means if you want to choose this path, you will have some support, but not full.

See also

• Wikiversity:AWB: an already programmed bot, ready to use.