Hello everyone-
My name is Randall Livingstone, and I am an en.wikipedian and faculty
member at Endicott College (Beverly, Massachusetts, U.S.) I have spent the
last two years researching bots on WP/WM projects (primarily en.wikipedia),
and I have recently been chatting with bot operators who work on
non-English language versions of the encyclopedia and other WM projects.
Thank you to everyone who has given his or her time and expertise on bots,
bot policies, and bot communities on the sites.
I am still looking for more participants to chat with about their work and
experiences with bots and automated tools on WP/WM (IRC, Skype, Gchat,
email, or whatever works for you). If you operate a bot, contribute to the
approval of bots on your local project, participate in discussions and
policy-making around bots, or have any similar experiences, I'd love to
chat with you. Online chats usually last between 30-60 minutes and can be
scheduled at a time convenient for you. Please note, I am only able to
correspond in English.
If you are interested in participating, feel free to email me directly (
rlivings(a)endicott.edu) or leave a message for me on my en.wp Talk
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Thank you in advance for your consideration.
Randall Livingstone
School of Communication
Endicott College
WP User: UOJComm
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of those protocols).
Hello! Is there a bot or extension that can generate stubs of template
descriptions by template wikitext? It should be pretty simple: the bot will
just grab all template parameters {{{PARAMETER}}} and lists those
parameters.
If no such extensions exists could anybody tell how to programaticaly get
the parameters of a given template?
Sincerely yours,
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Yury Katkov
I try to edit pages in a private wiki with pywikipedia. the wiki is password protected, so you cant even look at a page without logging in. While the login is working normal, I get an error that I dont have access to the api as soon as I try to actually do anything:
RuntimeError: {u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'}
{u'info': u'You need read permission to use this module', u'code': u'readapidenied'}
The user account of the bot is active and the bot user group should have access to the api.
Does anybody have an idea how I can solve this problem?
Thank you very much!
Today, I put text to a page by my bot. pywikibot.showDiff() shows clearly
that text is removed from previous revision for 2 lines and code returns
from put() also indicate that putting succeeds
(302, 'OK', {u'pageid': ..., u'title': u'...', u'newtimestamp': u'...',
u'contentmodel': u'wikitext', u'result': u'Success', u'oldrevid': ...,
u'newrevid': ...})
However, actually the text isn't changed! History page shows me that the
text is added 1 byte (or sometimes o byte), but the content and its
previous version are really the same.
Did anyone meet this problem?
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Sorawee Porncharoenwase
I have been working on some additions to the pywikipediabot framework.
I'd be happy if my code could be useful to others.
sync.py helps synchronizing different wikis. It goes through a bunch
of namespaces and creates an overview of pages that are different,
this is already useful for Templates and MediaWiki but especially
useful when dealing with semantic mediawiki, where a lot of the
functionality lives in namespaces such as Property, Type and Form.
linkreports.py creates a page with a table of broken links, first
date, last date and error message.
I also wrote a little PHP frontend that lets people run a
pywikipediabot replace script (it's for folks who can't or don't want
to use anything on a commandline). This can probably live on its own
on github, but it might be a bit too custom at this point and I'd like
to have some comments on it.
This PHP frontend is available at https://github.com/guaka/phpfrontforpywikibot
It's pretty rough still but releasing it forces me to think about the
public release when adding more functionality.
I'm not sure how to proceed with getting sync.py and linkreports.py in
the official repo. Shall I just put them up on github so you can take
a look? I'm looking forward to your ideas.
Kasper
Hi :),
I've found myself multiple times with user-fixes.py files that are so huge
that are difficult to manage. Therefore I did create a work around for
this:
https://github.com/Fale/ToolServer/blob/master/pywikipedia/user-fixes.py
I know that is pretty dirty code, but I think it solves a lot a problem
(the idea behind it, at least). Infact I have been able to create a
user-fixes folder
https://github.com/Fale/ToolServer/tree/master/pywikipedia/user-fixes with
a lot of well orgainzed files.
I think this feature should be moved in core.
What do you think about this?
Thanks,
Fabio
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Hi folks,
Is there a tool to hunt for overmagnified pictures and restore them? I mean
when a JPG is originally 150 px and is rendered to 300 px in the article
which is a useless enlargement and results in an ugly picture.
Or do we have any part of it, e.g. determining the size of a picture?
I think JPG is the main subject, GIFs are perhaps less involved and SVG is
of course problemless.
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Bináris
I just wanted to put() a simple page on a MediaWiki 1.16
instance, where I have to use screen scraping (use_api=False).
There is something strange however:
There is an API call invoked by _getBlocked:
/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo
Here's my backtrace:
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 693, in get
expandtemplates = expandtemplates)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 743, in _getEditPage
return self._getEditPageOld(get_redirect, throttle, sysop, oldid, change_edit_time)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 854, in _getEditPageOld
text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5881, in getUrl
self._getUserDataOld(text, sysop = sysop)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6016, in _getUserDataOld
blocked = self._getBlock(sysop = sysop)
File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5424, in _getBlock
data = query.GetData(params, self)
File "pywikipedia/query.py", line 146, in GetData
jsontext = site.getUrl( path, retry=True, sysop=sysop, data=data)
getUrl(), which is also called from API, seems always
to call _getUserDataOld(text) where text is ... API output
so it tries to do strange things on that and gives warnings
like
Note: this language does not allow global bots.
WARNING: Token not found on wikipedia:pl. You will not be able to edit any page.
which is nonsense since the analyzed text is not HTML - only API output.
If getUrl() is supposed to be a low-level call, why call _getUserDataOld()
there?
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/7461
has introduced this call there.
It's easily reproducable by this:
import wikipedia
import config
config.use_api = False
wikipedia.verbose = True
s = wikipedia.getSite("pl", "wikipedia")
p = wikipedia.Page(s, u"User:Saper")
c = p.get()
c += "<!-- test -->"
p.put(c, u"Testing wiki", botflag=False)
//Saper
Having problems with pageimport.py on a third-party wiki (WikiQueer). Anyone else having issues with that script?
I'm calling it from a script I'm playing around with - but no luck. It doesn't error out - but it doesn't import and confirms that the import failed.
Here's the "test" script I'm working from:
import wikipedia as pywikibot
from pageimport import *
def main():
wanted_category_title = "Apple"
enwiki_site = pywikibot.getSite()
importerbot = Importer(enwiki_site) # Inizializing
importerbot.Import(wanted_category_title,project='wikipedia', prompt = True)
try:
main()
finally:
pywikibot.stopme()
On a related note, the ultimate goal is to import pages for "Wanted Categories" from English Wikipedia into the third-party wiki. Any ideas, tips or existing code to that end would also be appreciated.
Thanks!
-greg aka varnent
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Gregory Varnum
Lead, Aequalitas Project
Lead Administrator, WikiQueer
Founding Principal, VarnEnt
@GregVarnum
fb.com/GregVarnum
Hi folks,
is there a piece of code in pywiki that determines easily if the current
time zone is summer or winter time? (Last Sunday of March, 3 o'clock --
last Sunday of October, 2 o'clock)
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Bináris