User talk:Triddle

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Hmmm, unix guru, perl programmer, do you freelance? --CorrosionX 19:58, 3 February 2006 (Eastern Standard Time)

Botification

I'm thinking of hacking together some sort of Perlish monstrosity of a bot to do each night's show notes. At a minimum, it would fetch the FTL front page or podcast XML, parse the show notes and turn it into our wiki format. It could also make wikilinks out of commonly used terms. I already wrote a similar script that turned the readme.txt from the torrent archives into show notes, so adapting that shouldn't be too hard. I'm also toying with the idea of parsing Ian's recent posts on the BBS, extracting anything that looks like links to show prep, and sticking links to that in too. I sent an e-mail to Ian today asking if he could use "//" in the show notes as a delimiter between hours in addition to "/" as a delimiter between topics, because right now finding the breaks between hours is about the only thing that can't easily be automated (other than the occasional cohost switchup, but those are rare).

So, do you know anything about Wiki bots? My previous script to do old archives just output the page to a text file and opened the appropriate page in Firefox, and I then manually cut and paste the text in. I found WWW::Mediawiki::Client, which seems to do what I'd need. Do you have any experience with it? --Rabidfurby 19:52, 11 April 2006 (Eastern Daylight Time)

I've never used it but I looked into it; I never did find something that would do what I needed though. I'd say just go for what ever gets it done the fastest and easiest and if WWW-MW-Client works then hell yea, go for it. I started to write a bot to do the same thing but got bogged down in other stuff. Thanks for taking up the task, it'll save a lot of work. :-) Triddle 02:41, 12 April 2006 (Eastern Daylight Time)

Feature Article

Why has the smoking ban been the featured article for almost a year now?