Hi... I'm a long time editor over at LOTRO-wiki.com. Just beginning to learn about bots, because all of the others who have done bots in the past have become inactive.
I am long-time Mac based, and a retired Unix Sys Admin, so the innards of OSX are not strange to me.
I have begun to update: www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Mac -- those first updates are hanging waiting for someone to approve them.
Two things have jumped out at me...
1- in the SVN download there is an error:
U pywikipedia/externals/simplejson Checked out external at revision 242.
Error validating server certificate for 'https://svn.toolserver.org:443': - The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually! Certificate information: - Hostname: *.toolserver.org - Valid: from Sun, 26 May 2013 09:34:24 GMT until Wed, 28 May 2014 17:08:01 GMT - Issuer: GeoTrust, Inc., US - Fingerprint: bf:35:7f:3e:62:4b:89:6c:bc:39:c9:c3:38:81:9e:53:26:43:be:f4 (R)eject, accept (t)emporarily or accept (p)ermanently? p svn: warning: Error handling externals definition for 'pywikipedia/externals/pycolorname': svn: warning: OPTIONS of 'https://svn.toolserver.org/svnroot/drtrigon/externals/pycolorname': Could not read status line: connection was closed by server (https://svn.toolserver.org)
Fetching external item into 'pywikipedia/externals/opencv'
The first error is Apple's Gatekeeper objecting to the Certificate... no big deal.
However, on accepting the certificate, the SVN throws an error attempting 'pywikipedia/externals/pycolorname'
2- In the instructions in Manual:Pywikipediabot/Mac, the first thing they have you do is to edit "user-config.py"
This file does not exist in the current SVN download. ====== The included README says nothing useful.
The README file in the docs directory says the following:
"This directory/folder is empty when you get the package. Change to the parent directory (containing 'Doxyfile' and 'setup.cfg') and run the release maintenance script with 'python maintenance/release.py' to fill this directory with documentation data."
As I am attempting to document the step-by-step process of installing "pywikipediabot" on the Mac, the immediate question is...
Is the above instruction the FIRST thing to be done when a virgin copy of pywikipediabot" is downloaded from the SVN. i.e. to a system which has never had it installed before... and therefore has no user-config.py file to edit.
OR... should "setup.cfg" be modified to create it?
OR (based on comments in CONTENTS) should "generate_user_files.py" -- be run first?
OR "config.py"?
T.T.F.N. William H. Magill
magill@icloud.com magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com