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Karlth
Karlth

Reputation: 3275

Updating Wikipedia location data via an api?

I need to update a number of Wikipedia articles with location info from Geonames via the coord template in Wikipedia. Is there an web services that allows updating of wikipedia location data?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 67

Answers (1)

svick
svick

Reputation: 244948

I doubt there is such a service. If you want to update Wikipedia pages en masse, you need to follow Wikipedia's bot policy. The most important part of that is that all bots (programs that make edits automatically) have to be approved.

So, I think what you need to do:

  1. Write the bot that edits the articles (possibly using one of the bot libraries).
  2. Get approval for the bot.

Upvotes: 2

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