Bugs item #2886547, was opened at 2009-10-26 16:39 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by xqt You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=2886547...
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: pywikipedia changes encoded tags to their plain equivalent
Initial Comment: It was reported that the pywikipedia framework changes HTML entites into their plain character equivalents.
See the diffs listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Misza13&oldid=322148... for why this can be a bad idea.
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Comment By: xqt (xqt)
Date: 2009-10-27 07:54
Message: Some of these edits looks like cosmetic changes (like cleanup headers for instance) but it is definitely not: cc is disabled on talk pages and it doesn't touch html entities like < and &
I guess this is not a standard python bot and these "cosmetic changes" are implemented with that archiving script.
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