> If I place the script in my pywikipedia directory, do I still need to add a
>   cd pywikipedia/   or equivalent after the first line?

If pywikipedia is your current working directory, you needn't use cd
command in your script.
Simply run your script as (for example) ./your-script.sh (if it has
executable right set)
or . your-script.sh (dot space scriptname) if it hasn't.

> I've seen   rundate=`date +"%FT%T%z"`  used after the cd command, but I
> can't figure out what this does. Is it needed?

It assigns current date and time in specified format to shell variable
named rundate.
I don't know what someone did with this timestamp hereafter, but you
don't need it.

Milda

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