As a summary, due to the absence of an automated application, I had to rely on the web interface to create 8500 plus pages in my site (http://ancientvoice.wikidot.com/) manually one page at a time. I guess with the help of the Wikidot API I can create the automated application that I need which could take the wiki formated pages (thousands of them, created using my own text parsing C++ application) straight from my computer's local folder , upload it to wikidot and convert them into wikidot pages at the click of a button.

@all: I hate acronyms except this one

35°c in Belgium today

WOE would have been better… though I'm not sure I want to leave people feeling woeful after using it ;-) WOE, of course, representing Wikidot Offline Editor.

Thanks again. :)
B.

At the moment you can't add custom buttons to the editor… but it's on my Todo list. Two people have requested something similar to what you want before:

• Franknarf, http://editor.wikidot.com/thread:66
• bcammo, http://editor.wikidot.com/thread:81

Shane, thanks for offering help, right now I don't need any bot changes, but maybe in future I remind you of what you offered today… :)

Thanks again guys, you're really great. :)

No, the editor (STE) is basically like Microsoft Word or Notepad, but it can access pages on Wikidot (well… the version I'm working on is able to - the one that you can download from the site at the moment is an earlier version without API access: http://editor.wikidot.com)

Making a "bot" that can interact with Wikidot's API

To make something like what you want someone would have to write a special-purpose program to do whatever task you want. If you let me know what you'd like to do, I'll gladly help you out as much as I can :) There is no need to create heaps of pages manually by hand any more!

Learning a programming language

Writing your own program (or 'bot' as you call it) would be very difficult if you have never learnt a programming language before. If you'd like to eventually make your own you should definitely try learning a language - but it will be quite some time before you get to the point where you can interact with Wikidot's API.

An API is probably too complicated for someone just starting out with a language. I can help you to learn Java if you'd like - and there are other people here that specialise in other languages. All you need to do is decide on which one you'd like to learn, then ask for help to learn it :)

You might be interested in my blog about learning the Java programming language (when I have time to update it): http://java.wikidot.com

I am familiar with the existence of bots, thanks to Wikipedia, but I see them as live animals who are put to work, who can make a mistake, go crazy and you have to switch it off using a big red button that programmers made. The thing is that I don't know anything about how it is made, and I would like to know how…

Not sure if you've seen my editor, STE? If you have, imagine that… but you can edit wikidot pages in that with never having to visit the actual page in a browser. That's in the next version of STE… so if you're interested in having a look I'll PM you when it's ready.

I don't have a clue what API is

API stands for Application Programming Interface

or you can use wiikidot as a storage for your "own" -database data -reading by your own programs - writing/editing by yourself OR your programs.

That is a big step forward in a new level !

Question to the deveoloper team - my (old) API key is working too - till today?