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Developer Portal content draft: A future central place which links key technical documents
by Andre Klapper 06 May '21

06 May '21

<tl;dr>: Your feedback as a technically-minded Wikimedian is welcome on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_… Hi everyone, last year[1] the Developer Advocacy team started to work on a single, central entry point for developers and tech-minded people for Wikimedia's technical documentation[2]. A central entry point ("developer portal") would cover common technical use cases to allow existing and future technical contributors and developers to find the information they need. Each use case links to its most relevant documentation (i.e. to pages on wikitech or mediawiki.org). This is part of a larger initiative to implement an organization strategy for key technical documents: Understand challenges about finding and maintaining docs, identify key docs, and investigate ways to improve our workflows around documentation. So far we: * Researched and reviewed existing documentation venues and pages * Reviewed developer/documentation portals in the broader industry * Interviewed several engineering teams around technical documentation workflows, audiences, and key technical docs (the key themes from these conversations are available, see the link above) * Created an initial draft for the structure and content of the single entry point Now we would like to improve this initial content draft with your help. 1) Please take a look at the initial draft at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_… 2) Then, please help improve it by sharing your thoughts and feedback until *May 25th* at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal/Content_… Note that this is only a draft how to structure content. It is not a design or layout proposal and it is not an implementation. For additional future work, see also the Phabricator workboard[3]. Next steps include: * A session at the remote Hackathon (May 22-23; [4]) * Incorporate content improvements, based on your feedback * Check the documents linked from the single entry point proposal for accuracy * Investigate requirements for the technical implementation * Investigate improvements of processes around technical documentation (structure, locations, navigation, stewardship, etc). If you want to learn more about the project, please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal Thanks to everybody who has provided their valuable input to get to this stage, and thanks in advance to everyone who will! Cheers, andre [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2020-August/093773.html [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_Advocacy/Developer_Portal [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/wikimedia-developer-portal/ [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2021 -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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Pywikibot.6.1.0
by info＠gno.de 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

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pywikibot in paws
by ישראל קלר 05 Apr '21

05 Apr '21

Hello, is it possible to run pywikibot scripts in paws? how?

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Newcomer questions
by Damian Johnson 02 Apr '21

02 Apr '21

Hi lovely Pywikibot folks. I'm the author of tor's python library [1] and recently decided to see what it's like to volunteer for this community instead. I have a few newcomer questions... 1. This email list and #pywikibot are remarkably quiet (~2/month as compared with the 'handful a week' described by the wiki [2]). Does pywikibot have any other communication channels (say, to request a bot) with more activity? 2. I created a bot account with a BotPassword to give our readme's example a whirl but Wikipedia evidently blocks bot access to its sandbox page? % cat demo.py import pywikibot site = pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikipedia') # The site we want to run our bot on page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Wikipedia:Sandbox') page.text = 'hello world' page.save('pywikibot practice') # Saves the page % python pwb.py demo.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pwb.py", line 363, in <module> if not main(): File "pwb.py", line 355, in main run_python_file(filename, File "pwb.py", line 74, in run_python_file exec(compile(source, filename, 'exec', dont_inherit=True), File "./demo.py", line 5, in <module> page.save('pywikibot practice') # Saves the page File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py", line 1452, in wrapper return obj(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py", line 1452, in wrapper return obj(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/page/__init__.py", line 1168, in save raise pywikibot.OtherPageSaveError( pywikibot.exceptions.OtherPageSaveError: Edit to page [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] failed: Editing restricted by {{bots}}, {{nobots}} or site's equivalent of {{in use}} template CRITICAL: Exiting due to uncaught exception <class 'pywikibot.exceptions.OtherPageSaveError'> Am I reading this error correctly? If so, maybe I could change our readme to something that works out of the box? If that would be ok, any tip on what it should demonstrate? 3. How do I run pywikibot's tests? I'd like to note the command on our development wiki [3]. Thanks! -Damian [1] https://stem.torproject.org/ [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Communication#pywikibot [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Development

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Guidance for Contributing to Pywikibot
by DRISHTI BHASIN 07 Mar '21

07 Mar '21

Hello, I am a sophomore at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I am willing to participate in Round 22 of Outreachy, and Wikimedia is an organization I am interested in starting my Open Source journey with. I am experienced in Python and have interests in Machine Learning and Computer Vision. I came across Pywikibot in Wikimedia's New Developers guide, and since it is in Python, I would like to get familiar with its tech stack and start contributing. I would really appreciate some guidance in this regard.

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problem with pywikibot on third party wikibases
by Dennis Diefenbach 05 Mar '21

05 Mar '21

Hi, I’m stuck with the configuration of pywikibot on a third party wikibase. I opened an issue 2 month ago but nothing is moving ... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270949 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T270949> I feel that the current code/documentation for pywikibot on a third party wikibase is wrong. could someone give a look? Merci Dennis <http://laboratoirehubertcurien.fr/> Dennis DIEFENBACH PhD dennis.diefenbach(a)univ-st-etienne.fr <mailto:dennis.diefenbach@univ-st-etienne.fr> Laboratoire Hubert Curien Campus Manufacture 18 RUE Pr Benoît Lauras 42000 SAINT-ETIENNE 04 77 91 57 80 http://laboratoirehubertcurien.fr <http://laboratoirehubertcurien.fr/> <http://www.univ-st-etienne.fr/> <http://www.facebook.com/Universite.Jean.Monnet.Saint.Etienne> <https://twitter.com/Univ_St_Etienne> <https://www.youtube.com/user/UniJeanMonnetUJM> <https://www.linkedin.com/edu/universit%C3%A9-jean-monnet-saint-etienne-12533> <http://www.viadeo.com/fr/company/universite-jean-monnet> <http://www.universite-lyon.fr/>

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New Pywikibot stable release 6.0
by info＠gno.de 01 Feb '21

01 Feb '21

Hi folks, a new stable release 6.0 will be deployed soon. There are some important points with this release, currently implemented in master branch: Breaking changes: - Support for MediaWiki < 1.23 will been dropped after fandom wikis updated most platforms to MW 1.33. (T268979) - comms.requests returns a requests.Response object instead of plain text. Normally this does not care because comms.requests result is passed through data.api anyway. But this changes enables to use a lot of requests functionality like exception handling, json conversion, encodings and we have access to headers response and others. Thanks to Mpaa who made a lot of commits to get the this done. - config.db_hostname was renamed to db_hostname_format to take into account that replicas hosts got redesigned and may have different host names. - APISite.loadimageinfo no longer returns any content; it just loads it to the instance cache. - A lot of scripts will be moved to archive folder (T223826). They are still usable if you add 'scripts.archive' to user_script_paths variable in cuser-config.py but they aren't actively maintained. Please visit https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T223826 and mark scripts you need. After moving to archive, just open a task to recover a script to be developed further. Currently archived scripts (featured.py and cfd.py) will be removed. Other changes: - Load time of Wikibase access to SiteLinks will be decreased a lot. Currently retrieving data from an ItemPage needs upto 6 minutes; after that change it might be only seconds. Using toJSON() method to a SiteLinkCollection will still need time to create the data dict. You may use a maintenance script "preload_pages.py" to optimize you bot in this special case. Refer https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/ROADMAP.rst for the full changelog of the current release and https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/HISTORY.rst for all release changes. A lot of thanks to all who have contributed new code or reviewed proposed changed. Also thanks for all reported bugs, improvement proposals and feature request. Thanks using Pywikibot. Thanks for participating to "2020 Coolest Tool Award Winner": https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Coolest_Tool_Award. Thank you all xqt

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Task for listpages.py
by Zoran Dori 19 Dec '20

19 Dec '20

Hello, could someone provide explanation in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T246549 to user Shashikantsingh7 because I don't know what to say. Best regards, Zoran

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Re: [pywikibot] ato
by ato 05 Dec '20

05 Dec '20

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Getting started with pywikibot
by Larry Martell 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '20

We have an internal wiki and I want to use pywikibot to get some data from it. Installed it from pip but when I import it I get: >>> import pywikibot Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pywikibot/__init__.py", line 25, in <module> from pywikibot.bot import ( File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pywikibot/bot.py", line 105, in <module> from pywikibot import config2 as config File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pywikibot/config2.py", line 373, in <module> base_dir = get_base_dir() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pywikibot/config2.py", line 367, in get_base_dir raise RuntimeError(exc_text) RuntimeError: No user-config.py found in directory '/vagrant'. Looking here https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Installation#Configure_Pywi… I see a reference to pwb.py, but that does not exist in /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pywikibot. What am I missing here? Thanks!

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