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Oooh a bot? What's this for Voidious? Will it surf WikiWaves? :) --[[User:Rednaxela|Rednaxela]] 00:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC) | Oooh a bot? What's this for Voidious? Will it surf WikiWaves? :) --[[User:Rednaxela|Rednaxela]] 00:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
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| + | Haha... Thanks for the warm welcome. =) Actually, I don't (yet) have any plans to make this bot update the wiki; I'm just fetching page contents with it for now. Doing it through a bot and a MediaWiki API library seemed much easier and more reliable than fetching and parsing raw URLs / HTML. | ||
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| + | As for the purpose, I'm a bit skeptical that anyone besides myself will think it's all that cool, but even so, it seems like something fun to play with: I'm toying with the idea of automatically tweeting about new / updated RoboRumble bots at [http://twitter.com/roborumble @roborumble on Twitter]. (It's actually looking pretty easy with [http://search.cpan.org/~mmims/Net-Twitter-3.04006/lib/Net/Twitter.pod Net::Twitter] and [http://search.cpan.org/~exobuzz/MediaWiki-API-0.27/lib/MediaWiki/API.pm MediaWiki::API].) | ||
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| + | A bit more complicated, but potentially way cooler / more useful, would be waiting until the rating stabilizes, then also including the rating(s) / ranking(s) in the tweet. Of course, I'd want to clear it with [[User:Darkcanuck|Darkcanuck]] before any program of mine starts fetching pages from his server, but I don't think hitting the rankings pages every few minutes would be that big of a load. (At least compared to how much I already hit them... =)) And I should also mention that [[User:PEZ|PEZ]] deserves credit for putting this idea in my head while we were discussing [http://twitter.com/robowiki @robowiki]. | ||
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| + | --[[User:Voidious|Voidious]], master of [[User:VoidBot|VoidBot]], 00:59, 6 August 2009 (UTC) | ||
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Welcome Bot! Hello, VoidBot you silly bot, and welcome to Your Home! This place contains a wealth information about Robocode, from basic to more advanced. I hope you enjoy If you are posting a comment on this wiki, please sign your messages using four tildes (--~~~~); this will automatically insert your username and the date stamp. If you are not familiar with MediaWiki, these links might help you out:
If you need help, check out the frequently asked questions or ask it on this page. Again, welcome! --Rednaxela 00:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC) |
Oooh a bot? What's this for Voidious? Will it surf WikiWaves? :) --Rednaxela 00:31, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
Haha... Thanks for the warm welcome. =) Actually, I don't (yet) have any plans to make this bot update the wiki; I'm just fetching page contents with it for now. Doing it through a bot and a MediaWiki API library seemed much easier and more reliable than fetching and parsing raw URLs / HTML.
As for the purpose, I'm a bit skeptical that anyone besides myself will think it's all that cool, but even so, it seems like something fun to play with: I'm toying with the idea of automatically tweeting about new / updated RoboRumble bots at @roborumble on Twitter. (It's actually looking pretty easy with Net::Twitter and MediaWiki::API.)
A bit more complicated, but potentially way cooler / more useful, would be waiting until the rating stabilizes, then also including the rating(s) / ranking(s) in the tweet. Of course, I'd want to clear it with Darkcanuck before any program of mine starts fetching pages from his server, but I don't think hitting the rankings pages every few minutes would be that big of a load. (At least compared to how much I already hit them... =)) And I should also mention that PEZ deserves credit for putting this idea in my head while we were discussing @robowiki.
