Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-43596541-20200117223316/@comment-43596541-20200118223528

@Andrewds1021 At the moment I will  use SPECIAL:Export to export data and process it in a Spreadsheet making full use of Complex filtering  to answer Game-Related questions like What Collection give the most Coinage with the least Assemblers requirement ... Or What Artifact impacts both Experience and Chance and how many  Assemblers in total are need to Assemble the 5 Component-Collections ... or to produce things like:  A list of Pages with "incomplete" Items Maps *BUT* I also plan to  copy pages and learn BOT operations in the "comfort" my SANDBOX Wiki ... In there, the "imported" pages from the "source wiki" will be transient and disposed of once the test  is completed. I'll try to remember to put a blurb the test data source... I downloaded Auto Wiki Bot since it seems to be the easiest to checkout but it seems to have limited applications compared to fuller "scripting" tools ...

@Fngplg I am looking into Bots partly out of personal curiosity and  because our Wiki has a lot of Long Lists  like  "Collections" and "Collection Items"  that might move from one page to another and/or  require table structure change overtime ... Sure we can "edit manually" but why  do it if a machine can do it faster wihout any typos !?! .. I'm a big proponent of using the machines if it saves human time to PLAY (^) ...

@Fandyllic  I see Bots as a Workbench Saw  or a Milling Machine in a Tool Room: You can wait to have a use for it before learning how to operate it safely with all the stress and the risk of "costly learning error" OR you can experminent and learn how to safely operate those machines beforehand so that you have minimal useable skills and already made your "beginnerMs mistakes" when comes  the time to use it ... Espcially since there will be a learning curve for any scripting language from Python to JS and passing by  php or Perl ... I think in my case, the tug&pull will be between Python & JS

TO ALL: Thanks for your Input.... I've been giving a Bots  Discord Channel to watch and learn from and will further my BOT Education there (once I join it)  (^) ...