How to add entries to Wiktionary programmatically?

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I want to add new entries to Wiktionary programmatically. Is there a specific Wiktionary API or some sort of hacky way of doing that?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 05 '17 at 09:01

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Wiktionary entries are plain wikitext. You can use the edit API to add a new entry, but you'll have to figure out how to generate the right wikitext.

answered May 05 '17 at 09:01

Tgr

Hi, thank you for your answer. Would you mind elaborating on how that would look like in code assuming I can produce the `wikitext`? – Aleksandar Savkov May 08 '17 at 10:12
You can find some examples in the [API docs](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Edit/Editing_with_Python). (You would have to use `text` instead of `appendtext` since you probably want to override the page content.) – Tgr May 08 '17 at 11:03
Of course there are all kinds of [libraries](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code) which do the heavy lifting for you. – Tgr May 08 '17 at 11:05

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