Perlwikibot is a framework for writing MediaWiki bots written in Perl, a free and open-source cross-platform programming language. MediaWiki::Bot itself provides classes and methods to perform many common tasks. There are currently no ready-to-run scripts like those found in Pywikibot.

Table of Contents

A printable version of Perlwikibot is available. (edit it)

• Overview
• Contributing
• Installing

Using

Documentation is best found by the command perldoc MediaWiki::Bot, or from CPAN. There is also some documentation on the Google Code wiki and on the GitHub repository.

Getting help

First, check the documentation. If your question is not answered there, you can contact the development team in three ways, listed here from most to least preferred:

1. Email perlwikibot@googlegroups.com
2. Submit an issue
3. Join #perlwikipedia on irc.freenode.net Category:Book:Perlwikibot#%20 Category:Subject:Utility software#Perlwikibot