Ryan Davis wrote:
> On May 21, 2007, at 10:27 , Peter Marsh wrote:
> 
>> I'm planning on writing a simple Wikipedia Bot, but I'm having a  
>> little
>> difficulty. The bot needs to be able to log in to Wikipedia, but  
>> I'm not
>> sure if this code is working. It returns the Main Page, which does
>> happen after you log in, but I'm not entirely sure if this means if  
>> I've
>> actually logged in or not.
> 
> Guess I'm going to be the one to ask: why do you need a wikipedia bot?

I don't need one at all personally, but there are loads of requests for 
bots of all sorts from the community. I thought that it'd be a nice 
project to start, and would actually be useful! I'm not upto no good :P

Pywikipedia looks pretty promising - since I'm learning Ruby I may as 
well learn Python!

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