Bugs item #2531935, was opened at 2009-01-23 23:29
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Category: interwiki
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Summary: -hintfile: option
Initial Comment:
The newly introduced version -hintfile: is not well-documented or it's not working as
expected.
It asks for a page to be checked (see below) while (according to [2284955] interwiki hints
from file) it's supposed to read both a local page and a hint page from file. Please
fix it. Thanks!
python interwiki.py -hintfile:
Please enter the hint filename: hints.txt
Which page to check:
Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r6291, Jan 23 2009, 16:08:14)
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Apr 18 2007, 08:51:08) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)]
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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date:
2009-03-03 09:44
Message:
What you want to have, in the above example, can be had with:
python interwiki.py -v -hintfile: -file:
Pywikipediabot (r6439 (wikipedia.py), Feb 24 2009, 21:48:26)
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 4 2009, 21:59:32)
[GCC 4.3.2]
Please enter the hint filename: hints.txt
Please enter the local file name: local-page-title.txt
There is no documentation saying that -hintfile: was overriding or
altering
the processing of any other parameter (and in fact, it does not)
Be aware that it is hardly useful to have a file with several page titles
given
via -file: when -hintfile: is being used, since hints would apply to each
of those
pages, provoking interwiki conflicts.
Thus -hintfile: is likely more often used with a singe page title on the
command
line. That does not preclude, however, a single page title being read from
a file
using -file:
If, and only if, the file given via -hintfile: has only unspecific hints,
such as [[10:]]
or [[en:]] or [[latin:]], (or all specific hinted pages do not exist) then
supplying a
list of pages via -file: would be likely free of conflicts.
There is a difference between hints and the page being processed. While
for the
outcome, in properly preset cases, it is often irrelevant where the bot
starts
processing, and which pages are then added because hinted, for the paths
the
bot follows while collecting links, it does make a huge difference
sometimes.
We can have hintless processing, but we cannot have a bot run on hints
alone,
without a starting page.
Maybe we should add some of these to the documentation? Is that, which
you
are asking for?
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Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-01-27 08:54
Message:
Assigned to committer.
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Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-01-27 08:50
Message:
Assigned to committer.
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Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-01-27 08:45
Message:
Assigned to committer.
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Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-01-27 08:36
Message:
Assigned to committer.
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