Help:Pywikibot

Pywikibot allows for querying, validating, and updating of Wikidata items, Wikipedia pages, statements, history, or users, by using Python libraries.

Python is a modern programming language, much used in big data projects.

It can run from a local shell, or from PAWS. It requires (advanced) programming skills.

When you would setup a private client instance, you also require advanced Linux administrator skills.

Documentation

Documentation is a bit scattered. You can find an overview here:

• Wikidata:Pywikibot - Python 3 Tutorial
• Wikidata:Tools/Edit items
• Wikidata:Creating a bot
• Pywikibot master documentation
• Manual:Pywikibot (MediaWiki)
• The Wikidata API
• PAWS (Jupyter server)
• wikitech:Help:Toolforge/Pywikibot
• Pywikibot Toolhub

See also

• Help:Items
• Help:Properties
• Help:Statements