Hi pywikibot experts,
How can I create new properties via pywikibot? (I'm trying to do it via
bot, because I'm doing some experiments on a dedicated wikibase
installation with - possibly - hundreds of properties to be created... and
Pywikibot would certainly be my favorite tool!)
In case I have, instead, to directly wrap the action "wbeditentity" from
mediawiki API (
https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=wbeditentity ), are
there some Python examples?
And, in case I have to use the php script "importProperties.php" (
https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Wikibase/blob/master/repo/maintenance/impor…
),
how can I manage properties more complex than the ones contained in the
example (
https://github.com/JeroenDeDauw/Wikibase/blob/master/repo/maintenance/en-el…
)?
Using pywikibot, I'm able to MODIFY existing properties with instructions
like the following ones (which let me generate the object-content in one
shot via json ... as I need):
In [1]: import pywikibot ; site = pywikibot.Site() ; repo =
site.data_repository()
In [2]: property_page = pywikibot.PropertyPage(repo, u"P2")
In [3]: myjson = {u'descriptions': {u'en': {u'language':
u'en', u'value':
u'invented description'}}, u'labels': {u'en':
{u'language': u'en',
u'value': u'test property'}}}
In [4]: property_page.editEntity(myjson)
...but I cannot CREATE new properties (instantiating a PropertyPage
object), because pywikibot asks for the identifier of an existing instance:
In [11]: p_page = pywikibot.PropertyPage(repo)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
InvalidTitle Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-11-e72b812b8cd3> in <module>()
----> 1 p_page = pywikibot.PropertyPage(repo)
/home/user/src/pywikibot_repo/pywikibot/page.pyc in __init__(self, source,
title)
4027 if not title or not self.id.startswith('P'):
4028 raise pywikibot.InvalidTitle(
-> 4029 u"'%s' is not an property page title" %
title)
4030 Property.__init__(self, source, self.id)
4031
InvalidTitle: '' is not an property page title
In [12]:
In fact, as I understand, in the source code of the "WikibasePage" class, I
see that
while for the Item type, a "Special case for empty item" is mentioned (
https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/blob/master/pywikibot/page.py#L…
)
# Special case for empty item.
if title is None or title == '-1':
super(ItemPage, self).__init__(site, u'-1', ns=ns)
assert self.id == '-1'
return
...for the Property type, instead, an empty object is NOT allowed (
https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/blob/master/pywikibot/page.py#L…
)
if not title or not self.id.startswith('P'):
raise pywikibot.InvalidTitle(
u"'%s' is not an property page title" % title)
Property.__init__(self, source, self.id)
Thanks a lot for your attention!