Hi! On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Manpreet Kaur &lt;manpreetkaur9411(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: If you want to just run scripts, not needed to install both but if you want to port scripts you should install them. Go to this page <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57995> (make an account in bugzilla) and add yourself to CC list, also you can find discussions related to this bug and related patches, etc. Best -- Amir

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Manpreet Kaur &lt;manpreetkaur9411(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Repeating what Amir and Fabian have said... It is a good idea to clone both the compat and core repos. http://git.wikimedia.org/summary/pywikibot%2Fcore.git http://git.wikimedia.org/summary/pywikibot%2Fcompat.git Also be aware that pywikibot-core has a subdirectory 'pywikibot/compat', which is a part of pywikibot-core intended to assist old pywikipedia (i.e. 1.0) scripts to run on pywikibot (i.e. 2.0). http://git.wikimedia.org/tree/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/master/pywikibot%2Fcompat Gerrit 100363 added a _script_ called 'watchlist.py'. http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/master/scripts%2Fwatchli… Firstly, it has one major problem: it uses an uncached API call (line 89-90) and performs its own caching (line 102-7). As the watchlist can be very large, constantly refetching the watchlist from the server is not a good idea. In pywikipedia (v1.0), the software was built with lots of scripts (like watchlist.py) providing critical tasks, and each script was written a different way. Therefore caching of data in watchlist.py is using its own strategy. In pywikibot (2.0), CachedRequest was added, so all MediaWIki API responses may be cached in a uniform manner. http://git.wikimedia.org/blob/pywikibot%2Fcore.git/master/pywikibot%2Fdata%… So we have bug 68988: "watchlist.py should use CachedRequest" https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68988 Using CachedRequest instead of Request only requires the addition of an expiry parameter, so that part should be very simple. A more significant improvement is that the watchlist functionality should be part of the library , i.e. part of the APISite class, which is in pywikibot/site.py . That is what bug 57995 has requested. That involves moving some of the code from scripts/watchlist.py to pywikibot/site.py, and rewriting it to be consistent with other APISite methods. For bonus points, the cached watchlist data should be invalidated when a new page is added to the watchlist via Page.save / Page.watch. See als APISite.editpage A really difficult improvement, which may not be desirable in many cases (e.g. small watchlists), and may not be worth the overhead & support costs: instead of invalidating the cached watchlist data, pywikibot could update the cached list of watchlisted pages on the client site. I recommend that you join the IRC channel ( http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#pywikibot ) to chat with other devs, who can help you get started, and discuss design decisions with you. -- John Vandenberg