[Wikia-l] wikia bot tutorial?

[DanTMan]

^_^ You know... Adding &useskin=monobook to any page request should have 
been something added to Pywikipedia some time ago. Perhaps you should 
even submit it to them.

~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)

Chris Stafford wrote:
> i should have mentioned why the need for the 2nd patch. the bot software
> depends on knowing where certain page elements are in the page source. to do
> this, they tell you to change your bot account's skin to monobook. if you
> are not running the bot under a 2nd account, you will need to change your
> skin to monobook before you run it.
>
> my patch fixes this by forcing all the page gets to be in monobook, allowing
> it to operate in any skin setting with any account.
>
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