Thanks, Gerdami, but I still don't know what is this… :(

Brunhilda, the simple answer is this: The Wikidot API lets people write programs that will interact with wikidot, instead of you having to do it all yourself through the web browser.

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.

Thanks, Shane, that's great news. I am interested to know how to make those bots, because it will be very useful for some changes that I had to do manually until now. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue how it is done. Does this editor of yours serves for this purpose? Can I make a bot with him?

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…

Nope, that's not what STE does

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

If you are interested in learning to program, especially if you might choose Python as the language you learn, then you should read this: http://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib//csev/trunk/pyinf/tex/book_03.pdf
It starts really slowly, and it's probably the best introduction to programming that I've seen. Even if you don't know whether you want to learn to program, the first chapter of that book is probably the best way to find out.

Shane, rurwin, thanks for the input… I will surely look into the links you gave me, and see if I am able to start something like this or not… I really don't have a clue about programming, and maybe this is really a too big bite for me… :)

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. :)

@Brunhilda: I hate acronyms that are not defined at 1st occurence
@leiger: STE ?

gerdami, it stands for Shane's Text Editor.

Well, what it stands for doesn't really matter. In this case the acronym isn't important as it doesn't provide any information about the app's actual purpose.

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.

@RobElliot: thanks, I was just missing one letter.
@leiger: EWO

@all: I hate acronyms except this one

35°c in Belgium today

Easiest way is if you download it and have a look: http://editor.wikidot.com/download - by using it a bit and trying it out you should get a good understanding of what it does (though the next version will do a lot more)

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

I will, Shane, as soon as I am on vacation, which will be in a month. :) Right now I am too busy at work and school, and this is something that I would like to do with tranquility and peace…. As soon as I see it and check it, I'll tell you my impressions…

Thanks again. :)
B.