On 9 October 2011 12:53, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
I think the problem is that my wiki is private and therefore needs to be logged in to use API.
In that case, you will get a *different* error, not the one you posted. It would be interesting to know which one, so people who try to run generate_family_file.py on a private wiki get a slightly more sensible error.
Perhaps generate_family_file.py is not prepared for handling private wikis.
This is not what it was designed for, no. It needs the API to get certain variables that are hard to get otherwise. In addition, setting up authentication is not so easy, so I'm not sure if it is worth the effort.
If you're running locally, I would suggest turning 'private' on and off again. For on-line wikis, I don't think it's easy to provide a working generate_family_file.py. However, feel free to adapt the code, it's not that hard to work with.
I tried to create the family file manually, but I get the arror when running: You need read permission to use this module
Which probably means pywikipedia is not well suited to working on private wikis at the moment - which could be a serious bug, I guess. When running edit scripts, it tries to get some standard information without logging in (you can see what queries it sends by running the script with a -v flag) - things like messages and rights.
Maybe login.py /will/ work, as it has no reason to do much querying. If that also fails, please post the output of
python login.py -v (please check for private information, but there should be none)
and
python version.py
in a bug report.
Good luck!
Merlijn