Pywikibot/Overview

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Template:Pywikipediabot

Overview

Step Article
1. Install python 2.4 or newer (but not 3.x, because pywikipediabot is still not updated to it!)

2. Download pywikipedia. (code repository - nightly built release)

Installation
3. Add your wiki-family in folder /families, if not already present. (README-family)
4. Run generate_user_files.py to generate user-config.py and user-fixes.py.
5. Run login.py. That's it, you can run category.py to manage categories, template.py to manage templates, add_text.py to add footers, replace.py to fix some stuff such as adding wikilinks, and a lot more.

In summary users configure these three files: