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[Pywikipedia-l] mitmproxy: sniffing pywikibot traffic to debug network issues
by Merlijn van Deen 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Hello all, mainly co-developers, mitmproxy is a tool that allows you to sniff network traffic -- which is incredibly useful for debugging pywikibot network issues. Of course, there are other tools to do this (e.g. ethereal), but those are not usable anymore now that the WMF switched to HTTPS. In addition, mitmproxy allows you to /manipulate/ the traffic, which can be useful for tricking pywikibot into thinking there are network issues. This weekend, I finally got mitmproxy to work for pywikibot/core -- the version available in ubuntu did not correctly forge SSL certificates yet. For other interested developers, I put up a guide at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pywikibot/mitmproxy Unfortunately, the internet seems to suggest it doesn't work that well for Windows users. http://honeyproxy.org/ is supposed to be better, but I haven't tested it. Merlijn

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Version numbers
by info＠gno.de 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

Von: Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> An: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Datum: 15.01.2014 13:47 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Version numbers > The old version number HAD some meaning. It gave a sort order, some help > where to put a script in my mind. This new system is only useful for > computers. Well, we can live together with that, but if there is any chance > to install some human readable version, I would appreciate it. > I also wished a serial number in past and we discussed a patch for git in past [1][2] during review which would enable an additional number like id$. But unfortunately this would not have the same meanung as in svn before. I found serial numbers usefuff for annotate/blame the code and debugging purposes which then leaded directly to the svn CR page where the patch was submitted. But these patches given above did not give that result I wanted and has been abandoned then. SVN repository from github still comes with a serial number but this diverges form the git counter due to merging process I guess and the github server does not support custom revprops via log. So we have to have git as it is. Greetings xqt [1] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77555/ [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/77554/

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[Pywikipedia-l] Version numbers
by Bináris 16 Jan '14

16 Jan '14

Is there a way to get human readable version numbers again, like in the SVN times? This is a small annoying thing that is really unimportant compared to other newborn problems. Earlier we had a decimal number that had some meaning. Now there is a long hexa string that informs only machines. -- Bináris

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[Pywikipedia-l] Anniversary.py has arrived
by Bináris 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

Have you ever searched for anniversaries to put on the main page of Wikipedia? Or do you know users who deal with this? I had a dream to find possible anniversaries with bot and this weekend I did it. The bot goes through articles and collects data in connection with the given date. In huwiki editors began to use it in the first minutes. :-) It is hard to write it generally in a form suitable for all Wikipedias, so I choosed to make localization easy with code and description. Bot v0.8: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:BinBot/anniversary.py Documentation: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:BinBot/anniversary.py/doc Sample product: https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:BinBot/%C3%89vfordul%C3%B3pr%… It is not ready as the date must still be set in code (main()), but it works and I am working on it further. -- Bináris

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Unknown command git
by info＠gno.de 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Binariz, I will send you a working release which I use an windows and svn when I am back at home thus weekend an I try to commit a working script a bit later after some improvements. Greetings xqt ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Bináris Gesendet: 11.01.2014 11:40 An: Pywikipedia discussion list Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] Unknown command git Hi! Az last -- as SVN is totally broken -- I downloaded the latest nightly of compat. First problem: whatever script I try to run DOS (Windows command) writes me the thing in subject. I think I have nothing to do with this stuff called git at the moment and didn't say to Windows to run anything by this name. Why I am damned with these messages and how can I prevent them? At the moment I just want to use my bot. Second problem: version.py from latest nightly says: Pywikibot: wikipedia.py (r-1 (unknown), b1e1a57, 2014/01/01, 13:01:20, OUTDATED) Release version: 1.0b1 Why? Yes, I really AM very angry and frustrated with this whole mess and I wish we have never thrown away a well working system just for nothing. Once I used to be a developer of this framework, now I have troubles with making it run at all. I feel I have to build and learn everything again from scratch what I had built and learnt for years. Arghhhxcnmv^^ˇ#&>@&{˘°~˘^°~˘^ -- Bináris

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[Pywikipedia-l] Unknown command git
by Bináris 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Hi! Az last -- as SVN is totally broken -- I downloaded the latest nightly of compat. First problem: whatever script I try to run DOS (Windows command) writes me the thing in subject. I think I have nothing to do with this stuff called git at the moment and didn't say to Windows to run anything by this name. Why I am damned with these messages and how can I prevent them? At the moment I just want to use my bot. Second problem: version.py from latest nightly says: Pywikibot: wikipedia.py (r-1 (unknown), b1e1a57, 2014/01/01, 13:01:20, OUTDATED) Release version: 1.0b1 Why? Yes, I really AM very angry and frustrated with this whole mess and I wish we have never thrown away a well working system just for nothing. Once I used to be a developer of this framework, now I have troubles with making it run at all. I feel I have to build and learn everything again from scratch what I had built and learnt for years. Arghhhxcnmv^^ˇ#&>@&{˘°~˘^°~˘^ -- Bináris

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Unknown command git
by info＠gno.de 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

> > I'm sorry you feel this way. No-one was very happy switching to git, but we > did not have much of a choice -- svn.wikimedia.org would go down, no matter > what. Of all the alternatives, switching to git/gerrit was the most > reasonable one. Overall, I'm unhappy with the migration, as this was > frustrating for developers and users alike, but I am also happy with some > things - we have seen an influx of new developers, especially during the > Google Code-In, and we now have a very nice integration between the bug > tracker. I'm also really happy with the pre-commit code review, which (I > think) improves pywikibot overall. > > Merlijn > I aggree with Merlin. I was very unhappy with git, was frustrated, angry and hated that damned shit git and finally was going to give up developing furthermore. Then I found some ways to use git/gerrit system on my windows (which is a mix of tortoisegit and git bash) and it is ok for me now. And I do not want to miss these advantages of new developers, a better code review before committing it and at least it is much more easy to merge submitted patches compared with the old patch tracker system. Greetings xqt

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Unknown command git
by info＠gno.de 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

I use SVN for my bots too and git for development only. I found SVN easier to use for me (with tortoiseSVN on windows OS) and to update externals and to merge local files. xqt ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: Jan Dudík <jan.dudik(a)gmail.com> An: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Datum: 11.01.2014 23:23 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Unknown command git > I am glad I'n not the only one who have problem with damned git. > Now I use SVM again, and the only problem is when I update after many > versions, that there are conflicts between local and global files. > > JAnD

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[Pywikipedia-l] pywikibot.extract_templates_and_params
by Bináris 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

Whoever wrote this function is a big hero! I am just very glad with it and thanks a lot! -- Bináris

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[Pywikipedia-l] Github SVN broken
by John 13 Jan '14

13 Jan '14

For some reason https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-compat no longer contains the i18n data (the folder is empty) can this please get fixed? John

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