Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-43596541-20200117223316/@comment-9605025-20200118005821

I am not familiar with bots but I see a few points I can still contribute to. BluesDriver wrote: I check the Wikipedia Help:Bots  and it is quite overwheming ...   There is  mentions of  "pywikibot' which is, if I understood,  a toolset  of scripts wiitten in PYTHON to do maintenance chores of a wiki...

[...] Here are some non-Wikipedia resources that may help. Also, it is "Python", not "PYTHON"; it isn't an acronym. BluesDriver wrote: [...]
 * 1) Help:Bots
 * 2) mw:Manual:Pywikibot
 * w:c:pybot

I guess my first question is: Is "pywikibot"  really that spread amongst the Wiki maintainers community ? Or are most "power users" using  a different or even a PHP tool  instead ?

[...] From what I do know, AutoWikiBrowser is another popular choice. BluesDriver wrote: [...]

As a Windows 10 user, I guess I would need to get the  .NET flavor of PYTHON and install it ...  There was some mention I should get "Visual Studio' and add a "PYTHON" Language pack ...  I'd be intrested to learn about alternative to "Visual Studio' in the Windows environment for script editing.

[...] Visual Studio is an IDE (integrated development environment). There are plenty of alternatives and which one people use typically comes down to personal preference. You can see a non-comprehensive list here. I have used Spyder. I have also used Eclipse but not for Python. BluesDriver wrote: [...]

Also if anyone has a ballpark of what it can represent time-wise to start from scratch and have a script that would dump a "Page_Name" to "Page_Name.txt"[...]

[...] Would using Special:Export work for your purposes? It saves as XML. BluesDriver wrote: [...]

P.S. Is this Forum the right place for such a Topic or I should consider joining  the DIscord server ? Or somehwere else ? ... There are plenty of experienced bot users here on Community Central so someone should be able to help you. I don't know about the Discord server but you could also consider asking for help on the dev wiki.