pywikibot April 2013

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[Pywikipedia-l] Study on Bots across WP/WM Projects - Looking for Participants to Chat With
by Randall Livingstone 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

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 page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:UOJComm>. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Randall Livingstone School of Communication Endicott College WP User: UOJComm You can learn more about me and download my dissertation here<http://commtechtheorysociety.com/about/> . This research has been approved by the Institutional Review Boards at both the University of Oregon and Endicott College. (Feel free to request a copy of those protocols).

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[Pywikipedia-l] Automatic generation of templates descriptions
by Yury Katkov 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

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, ----- Yury Katkov

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[Pywikipedia-l] problem with private wiki
by Matthias Schlögl 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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!

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[Pywikipedia-l] Text is unchanged
by Sorawee Porncharoenwase 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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? ---- Sorawee Porncharoenwase

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[Pywikipedia-l] sync.py, linkreports.py and phpfrontforpywikibot
by Kasper Souren 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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

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[Pywikipedia-l] User-fixes folder
by Fabio Alessandro Locati 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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 -- Fabio Alessandro Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (GMT +1) Phone: +39-348-2668873 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: fabiolocati(a)gmail.com PGP Fingerprint: 5525 8555 213C 19EB 25F2 A047 2AD2 BE67 0F01 CA61 Involved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia

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[Pywikipedia-l] Overmagnified pictures
by Bináris 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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. -- Bináris

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[Pywikipedia-l] Calling _getUserDataOld in wikipedia.getUrl???
by Marcin Cieslak 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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 += "" p.put(c, u"Testing wiki", botflag=False) //Saper

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[Pywikipedia-l] Problems with pageimport.py on 3rd party wiki
by Gregory Varnum 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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 ------- Gregory Varnum Lead, Aequalitas Project Lead Administrator, WikiQueer Founding Principal, VarnEnt @GregVarnum fb.com/GregVarnum

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[Pywikipedia-l] Daylight saving
by Bináris 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

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) -- Bináris

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