Hi,

I dont think we have tried running Pywikibot using a repository without the client also installed, however I do not believe that will be necessary.

I have added a section about Wikibase to the third-party wiki documentation

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Use_on_third-party_wikis#Wik...

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:35 PM, comfortably numb comfortably.numb.349@gmail.com wrote:

Dear Wikibase experts,

I have a (hopefully) trivial question to ask: is there any specific configuration to set in order to make a wikibase extension accessible via libraries such as Pywikibot? Should I maybe activate the wikibase_client ?

Here's the problem described from the Pywikibot point of view: when I try to connect to my wikibase installation, I can access the mediawiki pages...

In [1]: import pywikibot In [2]: site = pywikibot.Site() In [9]: page = pywikibot.Page(site, u"Main_Page") In [10]: page.get() Out[10]: u"<strong>MediaWiki ha ........................

...but I cannot access the wikibase Items (created in the same mediawiki installation), since the "site.data_repository()" method (of my local Pywikibot site-object) returns an EMPTY value...

In [37]: site.data_repository() In [38]: type(site.data_repository()) Out[38]: NoneType

While, if I access (the same way) the wikibase instance of https://test.wikidata.org (of course) I get a correct response from the "site.data_repository()" method (of my local Pywikibot site-object):

In [39]: wikidatatest_site = pywikibot.Site("test", "wikidata") In [40]: wikidatatest_site.data_repository() Out[40]: DataSite("test", "wikidata") In [41]: type(wikidatatest_site.data_repository()) Out[41]: pywikibot.site.DataSite

Here are the main details of my mediawiki/wikibase installation:

• MediaWiki: 1.26.2
• PHP: 5.6.15 (apache2handler)
• MariaDB: 10.1.9-MariaDB
• ICU: 4.8.1.1

...with these extensions (with specific versions) for Wikibase:

• Purtle: 0.1-dev
• Wikibase DataModel: 4.4.0
• Wikibase DataModel JavaScript: 1.0.2-dev
• Wikibase DataModel Serialization: 2.1.0
• Wikibase Internal Serialization: 2.1.0
• Wikibase JavaScript API: 1.1.0
• Wikibase Repository: 0.5 alpha (32d7ef0) 00:03, 30 September 2015
• Wikibase Serialization JavaScript: 2.0.6
• Wikibase View: 0.1-dev
• WikibaseLib: 0.5 alpha (32d7ef0) 00:03, 30 September 2015

If this question is asked in the wrong context I'm really sorry (I searched with no success the official pages of Wikibase and the archive of this mailing-list, http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.wikidata.technical): please let me know whether I should better ask this question to the Pywikibot library guys.

Thanks a lot for attention!

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