Hi all,

a new stable release 7.7 was deployed. It can be used at PAWS as well as at toolforge and can be installed via pip, downloaded from https://pywikibot.org or updated from remote repository. What is new with it?

- the topmost 5 authors based on the current text proportion can be found with Page.main_authors() method
- categories can be preloaded with APISite.preload.pages() [2]
- with global -config option the user-config.py filename can be changed; this is usefull to have different settings e.g. different bot accounts
- APISite.page_from_repository() is able to get a page located at the repository itself instead of raising NotImplementedError [4]
- a new script "create_isbn_edition" was added, contributed by Geert Van Pamel; thanks a lot for that. [5]
- with -async option login utility scripts runs faster in concurrent tasks [6]
- archivebot.py script has been improved. -async option runs the bot in concurrent task which is up to ten times faster; with -sort option the archive can be sorted by latest timestamp; unsigned threads are archived with the following thread
- Watchlist of watchlist.py script is retrieved faster in concurrent tasks.

Refer the changelog for other changes: [7]

This is the last stable release supporting Python 3.5 Recently only 0.6% had used this Python version. The next Pywikibot release 8 is under development and needs at least Python 3.6.1.

Best
xqt


[1] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/api_ref/pywikibot.page.html#page._toolforge.WikiBlameMixin
[2] htps://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/api_ref/pywikibot.site.html#pywikibot.site._generators.GeneratorsMixin.preloadpages
[3] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/global_options.html#global-options
[4] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/api_ref/pywikibot.site.html#pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.page_from_repository
[5] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/scripts/wikibase.html#create-isbn-edition-script-description
[6] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/utilities/scripts_ref.html#login-script
[7] https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/stable/changelog.html