Bugs item #2886547, was opened at 2009-10-26 15:39 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by nobody 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: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Date: 2009-10-28 20:22

Message: Re xqt: Hmm, not according to the bot operator. :\

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Comment By: xqt (xqt) Date: 2009-10-27 06:54

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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