Analyzing history instead of parsing timestamps from wikitext won't work because it will catch things like {{resolved}} tags that shouldn't delay archiving. It also will keep the common hack of adding a timestamp far in the future to prevent premature archiving from working.
Mpaa: I meant getting section date by getting history and analyzing
revisions instead of checking signature on them.
Best
On 8/2/14, Mpaa <mpaa.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
> @Amir
>
> If a section is unsigned and there is no timestamp, how can you find
> sections via their revision timestamp? And expect that the timestamp is a
> datetime object?
>
> Mpaa
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:57 AM, John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Recently we had a few cases of code that didnt compile getting merged
>> (I have +2 some of them.. :/), so I have fast tracked the addition of
>> a set of tests which run every script with -help , and with -simulate.
>> These new tests add about 3 minutes to the test suite execution, and
>> add basic validation that the scripts compile and at least main() can
>> be executed.
>>
>> There are a few scripts which do not emit help on -help, Not too many.
>>
>> The -simulate argument prevents the scripts from writing to any wiki.
>> Without any other argument, the script should do argument parsing, and
>> usually quit as if called with -help, or provide some informative
>> error message.
>>
>> Many scripts do not do proper argument parsing and environment sanity
>> checking, resulting in exceptions.
>>
>> The new tests, annotated with bug numbers, is here:
>>
>> http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/master/tests%2Fscript_tests.py
>>
>> The "auto_run_script_list" is the list of scripts which start work
>> without any additional arguments. For those scripts, the tester may
>> wait up to 5 seconds before it kills the process - we may be able to
>> reduce that delay per script by fixing some of the bugs.
>>
>> Due to some fancy legwork by Legoktm, we now have six Travis builds
>> occurring after each checkin, including running these tests against
>> 1. English Wikipedia,
>> 2. Arabic Wikipedia, and
>> 3. Wikidata.
>>
>> https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/pywikibot-core
>>
>> This means that a month old critical bug is now visible in the two
>> Arabic Wikipedia builds which are failing. There is a patch to be
>> reviewed:
>> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/149898/
>>
>> The 'basic' script failing on the py2.6 wikidata build seems to be
>> because py2.6 unit tests are executed in alpha order of the test
>> script name, and the wikidata login doesnt happen earlier for
>> wikidata, but does occur earlier for test scripts against English and
>> Arabic Wikipedia. I am currently working on a fix for this build
>> problem.
>>
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>> John Vandenberg
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