On Thu, Apr 1, 2021 at 3:54 PM Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org wrote:

Hi lovely Pywikibot folks. I'm the author of tor's python library [1] and recently decided to see what it's like to volunteer for this community instead.

I have a few newcomer questions...

1. This email list and #pywikibot are remarkably quiet (~2/month as

compared with the 'handful a week' described by the wiki [2]). Does pywikibot have any other communication channels (say, to request a bot) with more activity?

Individual wikis often have dedicated pages to request bot. For example, English Wikipedia's is Wikipedia:Bot_requests [1]. Its linked Wikidata item [2] lists many of the similar pages in different Wikimedia sites. Though, many of the bot requests may be done by other bot frameworks or even manually.

Discussion regarding development of the Pywikibot framework itself are often in Phabricator [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bot_requests [2] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4582561 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/profile/87/

2. I created a bot account with a BotPassword to give our readme's

example a whirl but Wikipedia evidently blocks bot access to its sandbox page?

% cat demo.py import pywikibot site = pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikipedia') # The site we want to run our bot on page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Wikipedia:Sandbox') page.text = 'hello world' page.save('pywikibot practice') # Saves the page

% python pwb.py demo.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "pwb.py", line 363, in <module> if not main(): File "pwb.py", line 355, in main run_python_file(filename, File "pwb.py", line 74, in run_python_file exec(compile(source, filename, 'exec', dont_inherit=True), File "./demo.py", line 5, in <module> page.save('pywikibot practice') # Saves the page File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py", line 1452, in wrapper return obj(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py", line 1452, in wrapper return obj(*__args, **__kw) File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/page/__init__.py", line 1168, in save raise pywikibot.OtherPageSaveError( pywikibot.exceptions.OtherPageSaveError: Edit to page [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] failed: Editing restricted by {{bots}}, {{nobots}} or site's equivalent of {{in use}} template CRITICAL: Exiting due to uncaught exception <class 'pywikibot.exceptions.OtherPageSaveError'>

This is the {{bots}} template [4].The purpose of the template here is to prevent bots from applying automatic fixes while people are experimenting with the sandbox. Since you are actually sandboxing you want to add a force=True to override.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Bots [5] https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot/blob/7ef994f09520f5bb658bd95843d2a795...

Am I reading this error correctly? If so, maybe I could change our readme to something that works out of the box? If that would be ok, any tip on what it should demonstrate?

3. How do I run pywikibot's tests? I'd like to note the command on

our development wiki [3].

To run individual tests:

$ python -m tests.tests_tests HttpServerProblemTestCase.test_502 [...] OK (skipped=1) $ python -m tests.tests_tests HttpServerProblemTestCase [...] OK (skipped=1) $ python -m tests.tests_tests [...] OK (skipped=1, expected failures=3)

To run the entire test suite:

$ python -m unittest family and mylang are not set. Defaulting to family='wikipedia' and mylang='test'. tests: max_retries reduced from 15 to 1 Disabled test modules (to run: python -m unittest ...): l10n, tests Extra test modules (run after library, before scripts): titletranslate, noreferences Skipping tests (to run: python -m unittest ...): {'textlib': ['test_interwiki_format']} weblinkchecker depends on memento_client, which isn't available Skipping execution of auto-run scripts (set PYWIKIBOT_TEST_AUTORUN=1 to enable): ['category_redirect', 'checkimages', 'clean_sandbox', 'login', 'misspelling', 'revertbot', 'noreferences', 'parser_function_count', 'shell', 'unusedfiles', 'upload', 'welcome'] 44.684s .. [...]

To run the test suite in tox with all the environment setups, doctests, flake8, etc:

$ tox commit-message create: /home/zhuyifei1999/mw-dev/pywikibot-core/.tox/commit-message commit-message installdeps: commit-message-validator commit-message develop-inst: /home/zhuyifei1999/mw-dev/pywikibot-core [...]

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