[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1965842 ] Modern skin not usable

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Bugs item #1965842, was opened at 2008-05-17 09:34
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Status: Open
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Modern skin not usable

Initial Comment:
The MediaWiki skin 'modern' does not have that much HTML cruft around the actual content. Thus there would be a little bit less bot traffic with this skin.

But I cannot use that skin with pyWikipedia! Error message:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "interwiki.py", line 1731, in ?
    bot.run()
  File "interwiki.py", line 1482, in run
    self.queryStep()
  File "interwiki.py", line 1461, in queryStep
    subj.finish(self)
  File "interwiki.py", line 1042, in finish
    if self.replaceLinks(page, new, bot):
  File "interwiki.py", line 1200, in replaceLinks
    status, reason, data = page.put(newtext, comment = wikipedia.translate(page.site().lang, msg)[0] + mods)
  File "wikipedia.py", line 1222, in put
    sysop = self._getActionUser(action = 'edit', restriction = self.editRestriction, sysop = False)
  File "wikipedia.py", line 1114, in _getActionUser
    if not self.site().isAllowed(action, sysop):
  File "wikipedia.py", line 4013, in isAllowed
    return right in self._rights[index]
TypeError: iterable argument required

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>Comment By: Daniel Herding (wikipedian)
Date: 2008-05-22 17:41

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"Modern" misses several tags that PyWikipediaBot relies on. For example,
the tag <div id="bodyContent"> (e.g. on Whatlinkshere) is important, but
only MonoBook has it.

Of course we could search for other tags that are available in more skins,
but I think it's not worth it, as you seem to be wrong about your
assumption that the "Modern" skin had less HTML than "MonoBook". HTML pages
seem to have about the same sizes with both skins.

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Date: 2008-05-19 03:28

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BTW: See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3651

That skin assumedly would not work either.

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Comment By: Melancholie (melancholie)
Date: 2008-05-17 09:38

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After ~manipulating~ line 4013, the following message is shown:

ERROR: Unexpected response from wiki server.
       200 (OK)
[...edit view...]

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