I am only user of pwb, so some answers from my POV:


2013/10/18 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com>
Hoi,

Ok ... ten questions ... I want to publish the answers on my blog before the pywikipedia bugday (october 24)... if only to get as many people as possible to attend.

When I send questions, I always indicate that some questions may not work well. <grin> I can replace a question if need be </grin>
Thanks,
       Gerard

  1. What is pywikipedia?
  2. As I understand it there are two versions, core and compat. What is pywikipedia core and what is compat?
compat (formely trunk) is the older version, which is easier to use (script.py -parameters), but have some limitations
core (formely rewrite) is newer, little bit harder to use (pwb.py script -parameters) and have some other limitations (some scripts were not rewrited yet)
new names are little bi confusing (co*/co* vs. tr*/re*)
  1. Why keep them both, it must be a lot of work to have to maintain them both
  2. Recently all the bugs have been moved to bugzilla ... What is it that you hope to achieve by this?
Maybe some very old requests for features can be reopened and fulfilled 
  1. Recently all the code has been moved to git ... What is it that you hope to achieve by this?
This move have some problems - harder updating on windows, need of review causes longer time before patch is live  
  1. What is the biggest challenge running the pywikipedia bot?
If you want to use more scripts,  its good to know regexp :-)
  1. How many people are using the pywikipedia bot and how many people are developing code for pywikipedia bot
After launch ow Wikidata many bots lost its work :-) e.g. my bot was active on all wikipedias, now works only on 2-4 and wiktionaries.
  1. It is possible to use the pywikipedia bot in so many ways... Is it easy to learn what it can and cannot do?
When script have documentation inside, its easier. Some scripts have documentation on mediawiki.org, but nobody knows about it.
  1. How long does it take before pywikipedia bot supports a new Wikidata data type ?
From my POV very long, but it can be only because lack of informations - i know only about two scripts which works on wikidata 
  1. There will be a pywikibot bugday... What is it and who can participate?



JAnD

 
On 14 October 2013 21:49, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf@free.fr> wrote:
Le 14/10/13 16:11, Gerard Meijssen a écrit :
> Hoi,
>
> Core and Compat are the two faces of pywikipedia. Who is interested to
> answer some questions that helps me understand this better.

As I understand it Compat is the old version of pywikibot started in
2003.  Core is a full rewrite started in 2007.

But I am merely a lurker here :-]

> I would like to ask ten questions about this and publish the answers
> on my blog.

*be bold*

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Antoine "hashar" Musso


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