From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T02:07:15+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ruby-MediaWiki (was: Wikipedia Bot)

On 5/22/07, Stephan Maka <stephan@spaceboyz.net> wrote:
> Rick DeNatale wrote:
> > It would be cool if there were a ruby equivalent to pywikipedia.
>
> We have written what you're looking for, but a year ago and we've not
> taken care of it since then.

Cool, if I once again need it I'll take a look.

> But it should be still working with recent
> MediaWikis.

There's the rub*, when I was using the pywikipediabot the team had a
time keeping up with the evolution of mediawiki.  It's a problem with
screen-scraping, you need to keep up the the screen you're scraping.

*pre-s: It's happening to me again. For years I had the tendency to
type smalltalk automatically whenever I typed small. In fact it
lingers on sporadically even today.  Just now I typed:  There's the
ruby <G>
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Rick DeNatale

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