Hi André,

Looking at https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/i18n.py#L6, it sounds to me like in principe the core Pywikibot code should never call i18n.*.

There are currently a few places where this _does_ happen:

* pagegenerators.py, which uses a fallback in case i18n data is not available: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/master/pywikibot/pagegenerators.py#L641 -- so these are OK.
* page/__init__.py calls twtranslate in:

  1) the cosmetic changes fallback. This one is a little difficult to fix -- maybe it should fall back to a hardcoded English string in case i18n is not available?

  2) the touch method. The method should probably require summary to be passed as part of the method signature. The corresponding script scripts/touch.py / scripts/newitem.py can then do the i18n lookup.

       ... in principle, we could also just use a hardcoded summary and not bother translating. After all, touch is supposed to not modify the text and therefore the edit summary _shouldn't be visible_...

Indeed the other approach would be to bundle a subset of i18n data with the framework (these are all in scripts/i18n/pywikibot). However the loading setup is a little bit complex due to the data being json files that could be in a (zipped) Python package...

Cheers,

Merlijn

On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 14:30, André Costa <lokal.profil@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm building a small pywikibot tool[1] which is designed to be installed via pip (and in turn installs Pywikibot via pip).

The tool uses the page.touch() function which is where I get a pywikibot.i18n.TranslationError when I run it.

page.touch() gets it's edit summary from i18n.twtranslate(self.site, 'pywikibot-touch') which in turn is defined in /scripts/i18n/pywikibot/. Unless I'm confused the Error occurs because the pip distribution does not include the /scripts folder or the i18n submodule.

So my first question is am I just doing something obviously wrong and the i18n submodule should have been available over pip as well?

If it's not just me then would it not make sense to have any i18n files necessary to the Pywikibot library to also be distributed via the same pip package? (i18n for scripts is another issue since for scripts you cannot use pip).

Cheers,

André / Lokal_Profil

[1] https://github.com/lokal-profil/pywikibot-sdc

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