pywikibot January 2025

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Infobox tidy script
by Huji Lee 29 Mar '25

29 Mar '25

Hi PWB friends, I was about to write a bot script but figured I should ask her first. On fawiki, I occasionally run into pages where the infobox template at the top of the page is squished into one very long line, as opposed to being multiline. Look at this example <https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Infobox_tidy&action=edit> I made on testwiki; I want to turn it to something looking like this <https://test.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Infobox_tidy&action=edit&oldid…>. I have a reasonable sense of how to write the bot script and what possible edge cases to watch for, but I wonder if someone may have already written a script for this purpose. LMK, Huji

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Syntax to import own package
by Bináris 19 Jan '25

19 Jan '25

I have an own package with path c:\Pywikibot\scripts\userscripts\huwiki. When I use saved scripts, import huwiki works fine. Either I call python from Windows command line from c:\Pywikibot, and import pywikibot, or I call python pwb.py shell from the same directory, import huwiki will work in neither cases. So how can I use it from interactive environment? -- Bináris

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Mismatched <noinclude> tags causing Page.templatesWithParams() to fail
by Roy Smith 18 Jan '25

18 Jan '25

In [[:en:Special:Permalink/1262061168]] <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Did_you_know_nomination…> there's a missing <noinclude> tag, leaving a mis-matched closing </noinclude>. This is apparently causing Page.templatesWithParams() to return bizarre results which I can't reproduce in testing. This is what's running right now: > def articles(self) -> List[Article]: > articles = [] > for t, params in self.page.templatesWithParams(): > if t.title() == "Template:DYK nompage links": > for param in params: > if "=" not in param: > try: > articles.append(Article(Page(self.page.site, param))) > except ValueError as ex: > print("title=%s, t=%s, params=%s, param='%s', ex=%s" % (self.page.title(), t, params, param, ex), file=sys.stderr) > return articles When processing [[Template:Did you know nominations/Nasra Ali Abukar]], it throws ValueError in Page() and prints (slightly reformatted here for readability): title=Template:Did you know nominations/Template:Did you know nominations/Nasra Ali Abukar, t=[[en:Template:DYK nompage links]], params=['', '2021 Summer World University Games', 'nompage=Template:Nasra Ali Abukar'], ex=Title must be specified and not empty if source is a Site. Which doesn't make a lot of sense; the "2021 Summer World University Games" param is from the preceeding {{DYK header}} template. This is running with some oldish code right now in production: Python 3.9.2 pywikibot==7.7.1 In my test environment, I'm running; Python 3.11.8 pywikibot==9.5.0 and can't reproduce the problem there. Does this make any sense? Could the mis-matched </noinclude> tag be causing this?

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Watching a large number of pages?
by Roy Smith 16 Jan '25

16 Jan '25

I've got a list of O(100,000) pages. I want to get a feed of all the edits to those pages in real time. What's the most efficient way? The two strategies I can see are Site.recentchanges() and filter them on the client side, or put all the pages on my watchlist and call Site.watchlist_revs() periodically. Is there something more clever than those? Back-of-the-envelope, using numbers from https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org, 6 million edits per month is 200k per day or 2-3 per second. So the recent_changes method doesn't seem too bad, but who knows... The goal here is to build a real-time activity ticker to display at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia Day 2025 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Day_2025>. Maybe with some snazzy graphical front end. The set of pages is everything that's (recursively) a member of Category:New York City <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_York_City> although I expect I'll probably apply some sort of filter like "has coordinates within the geographic limits of NYC". I'll prep the set off-line, so at the point where I'm running this, I'll have a pre-computed fixed set of pages.

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High level Wikidata API
by Strainu 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Hi folks, happy new year! Every time I use pwb for Wikidata I miss the high level APIs that are available in Lua in my language, things like: getBestValue, getValueAtTimestamp (for example the name of a country in 1920), getChainedValue (walking through the properties graph) etc. Is not having such APIs an explicit design decision or it's just that nobody got around to implementing them in the library? Are there other people interested in such APIs? I can contribute some of them from my scripts. Best, Strainu

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New contributor introduction
by Budhachandra Yumkhaibam 03 Jan '25

03 Jan '25

Hi everyone, I am Budhachandra, I am new around here. My goal is to get familiar to the project and be ready for Wikimedia Software Engineering Internship Program (2025). Currently I am looking at this issue: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154281. Can I be assigned to this issue ? The repository mirrored on github has a README.md which shows how to set up the environment. I have done the first few steps and have generated user-config.py with default settings. I look forward to working with everyone.

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