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[Significant change] New datatype fields in Lexeme JSON output
by Lucas Werkmeister 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Hi all! This is an announcement for a significant (but not breaking) change to the JSON output of WikibaseLexeme entities, specifically of Senses and Forms, when obtained via Special:EntityData <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityData> or the Wikibase API endpoints like Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities>. The Snak output in the Wikibase JSON serialization <https://doc.wikimedia.org/Wikibase/master/php/md_docs_topics_json.html#json…> usually contains a datatype field for each Snak. Previously, these fields were missing for statements within Senses and Forms of a Lexeme – see the message on Project Chat <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:PermanentLink/1258923595#[Significant…> for an example (I didn’t want to bloat this email too much by including it here 🙂). Starting on 26 August 2020 (barring unexpected deployment issues; 25 August 2020 on Test Wikidata), these datatype fields will be present there as well. If you have any issue or question, feel free to leave a comment at T249206 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T249206>. Cheers, Lucas -- Lucas Werkmeister (he/er) Full Stack Developer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Moving from Gerrit to GitLab
by Maarten Dammers 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Of interest to us too. Someone in some WMF backroom has decided that we're switching from Gerrit to Gitlab. I'm no big fan of Gerrit, but this seems to be a very strange process. Comments on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/GitL… Maarten -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Wikitech-l] Moving from Gerrit to GitLab Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 23:22:18 -0400 From: AntiCompositeNumber <anticompositenumber(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: For developers discussing technical aspects and organization of Wikimedia projects <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> The Wikimedia Engineering Productivity team has decided that Wikimedia projects will move from Gerrit to GitLab for code review and continuous integration. They have decided that this decision is not subject to any formal RFC. Previous attempts to change the code review system went through an RfC. They are, however, looking for feedback. More information is at <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Release_Engineering_Team/GitLab> and the associated talk page. Regards, AntICompositeNumber _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Python 3.8.4 and IDLE
by info＠gno.de 27 Jul '20

27 Jul '20

Hi all, for those of us who use Python's IDLE for developing: there is a known bug in Python 3.8.4 (issue 41300) which sometimes prevents saving a script file. Not sure whether this is Windows only. To solve this you may - use another editor - add a BOM to the file , e. g. via notepad++ but do never submit such files to pywikibot repository - use Python 3.8.3 instead - or (my preferred solution) modify the related Python 3.8.4 file: look for the Python installation. Open the iomenu.py inside Lib/idlelib folder and add the line "import io" (without quotes) on top of this file. Best xqt

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Gerrit group membership
by Russell Blau 19 Jul '20

19 Jul '20

It has been quite a while since I tried to contribute code to pywikibot. Yesterday, after setting up git on my computer and rechecking my gerrit account, I did try to commit a tiny change, only to find out that I am not a member of the "pywikibot" group on gerrit.wikimedia.org. How do I get myself added to this group? -- Russell Blau russblau(a)imapmail.org

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BREAKING CHANGE: removing special pageterms behavior on repo wikis, use entityterms instead
by Lucas Werkmeister 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

This is an announcement for a breaking change to the pageterms submodule of the query API module, which only affects Wikibase repository wikis. If you do not use that API module, or only use it on client wikis (e. g. Wikipedias) and not on repository wikis (Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons), you can ignore this message. For years, the pageterms <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query%2Bpageterms> API module has served a double role: on client wikis, it returned the “terms” (Label, Description, Aliases) of the Wikidata Item linked to the given page(s), whereas on repo wikis, it would return the terms of the Item (or other Entity) on that page itself. For example, querying for the Label of Wikipedia:Village pump on English Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageterms&titles=Wikip…> would return “Project:Village pump” (the Label of Q16503 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16503>), but querying for the Label of Wikidata:Project chat on Wikidata <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageterms&titles=Wikid…> would not return anything, even though that page is linked to the same Item – you would have to query for the Label of Q16503 <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageterms&titles=Q1650…> instead. This behavior is inconsistent and also mixes repo and client concerns in a way that makes the Wikibase code harder to maintain. To resolve this, we introduced a new entityterms <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/query%2Bentityterms> API module (a submodule of the query module, just like the pageterms module) which has the same behavior as the pageterms module currently has for Item (or other Entity) pages, and which is only available on repo wikis. If you want to get the terms of Q16503, you can now use action=query&prop=entityterms&titles=Q16503 <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=entityterms&titles=Q16…> instead of action=query&prop=pageterms&titles=Q16503 <https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=pageterms&titles=Q16503>. (You can also use wbgetentities <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:ApiHelp/wbgetentities>, which gives you much more control over the returned data; pageterms/entityterms may be faster and can also be combined with other submodules of the query module.) On or shortly after 5 August 2020, we will remove the special repo behavior of the pageterms module, and it will then behave just like it always has on client wikis, and return the terms of the Item linked to a page, not the terms of the Item (or other Entity) on a page. (Because the new API module is already available on Wikidata, and you can start using it immediately, we are not making this pageterms behavior change available on Test Wikidata significantly before that date.) If you have any issue or question, feel free to leave a comment at T257658 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T257658>. For more information, see also T115117 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T115117>, T255882 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255882> and T256255 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T256255>. Cheers, Lucas -- Lucas Werkmeister (he/er) Full Stack Developer Wikimedia Deutschland e. V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin Phone: +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0 https://wikimedia.de Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us to achieve our vision! https://spenden.wikimedia.de Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/029/42207.

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Using the Q number to get a wikidata page
by Clements, Paul 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Hi, I am trying to use a q number to get the details of a page in wikidata. I have searched through the tutorials and found these that claim to work wikidata = pywikibot.Site("wikidata", "wikidata") repo = wikidata.data_repository() item = pywikibot.ItemPage(wikidata, "Q42").get()['claims']['P31'][0].getTarget() itempage = pywikibot.ItemPage.fromPage(pywikibot.Page(pywikibot.Site("en", "wikipedia"), "Douglas Adams")) However when I run either of these then I get the EntityTypeUnknownException: DataSite("wikidata", "wikidata") does not support entity type "item" As I am new to this and also python I am sure I am doing something stupid but its currently driving me mad. Any help would be appreciated Clemo ****************************************************************************************************************** Experience the British Library online at www.bl.uk<http://www.bl.uk/> The British Library’s latest Annual Report and Accounts : www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/index.html<http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/annrep/index.html> Help the British Library conserve the world's knowledge. Adopt a Book. www.bl.uk/adoptabook<http://www.bl.uk/adoptabook> The Library's St Pancras site is WiFi - enabled ***************************************************************************************************************** The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail and notify the postmaster(a)bl.uk<mailto:postmaster@bl.uk> : The contents of this e-mail must not be disclosed or copied without the sender's consent. The statements and opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the British Library. The British Library does not take any responsibility for the views of the author. ***************************************************************************************************************** Think before you print

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pywikibot wikibase edit history
by Dennis Diefenbach 09 Jun '20

09 Jun '20

Hello! I have the following problem … I would like to analyse with Pywikibot the edit history of a wikibase entry. I’m able to retrieve the revisions with: wikibase_item = pywikibot.ItemPage(wikibase_repo, 'Q74781') wikibase_item.get() for h in wikibase_item.revisions(): print(h) From here I would like to see what statements/labels where added/deleted in each revision. Could you point me to some documentation or share a code example? Would be great! Salut 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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Searching the list archives
by John Bray 05 Jun '20

05 Jun '20

Is there a way to search the list archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikibot/ John

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listpages with -notcategory
by John Bray 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

I want to list pages in category A that are not in category B, so was expecting a syntax like python pwb.py listpages -ns:0 -cat:A -notcat:B -intersect -format:"{page.title}" But as far as I can see listpages does not have a 'not category' option. Is there another way I can do this? BTW, I fixed my wikia problem, see https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:1881105 John

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Using on a wkia (fandom.com) site
by John Bray 30 May '20

30 May '20

I can use pywikibot well for self hosted fancyclopedia.org, and now want to use it on wikia site hornblower.fandom.com. I got the wiki admins to give me bot access for my account vicarage python pwb.py generate_user_files I chose family wikia, username vicarage, but not BotPassword as https://hornblower.fandom.com/wiki/Special:BotPasswords does not exist python pwb.py listpages -cat:Captains WARNING: Non-JSON response received from server wikia:wikia; the server may be down. So there is that problem, and I'm not sure how to feed in my password. John

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