Forum:Creating bots - Resources?

Hi. I used to edit a wiki with five people, but since then, I'm the only one looking into it on a daily basis. It would suck for me to leave it to rot with vandalism, so I came back and asked a fellow affiliate who was a bureaucrat there to turn me into a sysop so I can act as a one-man band.

Except, I don't want to be alone. However, interested editors for this particular subject matter who would spend a great deal of time on a wiki are very hard to come by, so I'm considering the use of a bot. I'm currently using AWB, but it doesn't really fit my needs for fixing redlinks.

I did some research on bots, and found that most bots are used for maintenance and minor edits, as well as vandalism revision. I saw some libraries that look pretty easy to develop with, but their functions are too limited. I need a bot that can create a large amount of articles in a short period of time. We have thousands of unwritten scripts for the comics and video episodes waiting to be done. I could always ask the creator for the written scripts just to save lots of time, which would be perfect because I could just parse each line as I'm creating a new page.

TL;DR Is there a bot library out there or an AWB function that allows me to create articles in a short period of time? Chocolancer 22:57, March 29, 2012 (UTC)


 * Yes, in AWB just under "Skip" change "Do not exist" to "Do not care". Usually, this is enabled so that an incorrectly typed page does not end up in disaster (for example, if you were adding stub to a page named FOO, but you accidentally typed FOIO, it would end up creating FOIO and leaving FOO alone.)  If you want to create pages, you will have to disable this. Iggyvolz 23:42, March 29, 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much. This saves a LOT of time for me, but I would like to ask anyway what is the most common library used for the bots here in Wikia. Chocolancer 00:40, March 30, 2012 (UTC)