Wikibot

There are quite a few software libraries that helps automate the process of interacting with Wikipedia.

pypi wikipedia

For example, Python has a package, called pypi wikipedia, and it can be installed using the following instruction in command line:

pip install wikipedia. 

A video shows how to do that.

pypi pywikibot

Another more elaborate implementation is called pypi pywikibot. and it can be installed using the following instruction in command line:

pip install -U setuptools
pip install pywikibot