BotWikiAwk is a framework of tools and libraries for creating and running bots on Wikipedia.

• Bot management tools compatible with bots written in any language
• .. and/or libraries for bots written in awk
• Non-SQL. Data files in plain-text
• Manage batches of articles of any size, 50 for WP:BRFA or 50k to unlimited for production runs
• Runs using GNU parallel making full use of multi-core CPUs
• ..or on the Toolforge grid across 40+ distributed computers
• Dry-run mode, diffs can be checked out before uploading
• Inline colorized diffs on the command-line
• Re-run individual pages via a cached copy of the page (download wikisource once, run bot many)
• Installs in a single directory, easily removed
• Includes complete example bots and skeleton bots
• Includes a general awk library developed over years of writing bots
• Includes a standalone command-line program to interface with the MediaWiki API
• In development and private use since 2016. Public June 2018

Example run a 50k-article bot with three commands:

makebot ~/BotWikiBot/bots/accdateproject -c -p accdate20181102.00001-50000runbot accdate20181102.00001-50000 auth

• Install BotWikiAwk library

    cd ~  git clone 'https://github.com/greencardamom/BotWikiAwk'  export AWKPATH=.:/home/user/BotWikiAwk/lib:/usr/share/awk  export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/BotWikiAwk/bin  cd ~/BotWikiAwk  ./setup.sh  read SETUP for further instructions eg. setting up email