https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55224

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55224 Summary: Wrong language with a one-site family can yield confusing er Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1390/ Reported by: valhallasw Created on: 2012-01-07 00:10:07 Subject: Wrong language with a one-site family can yield confusing er Original description: valhallasw@dorthonion:~/src/pywikipedia/trunk$ python version.py Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9820, 2011/12/29, 12:08:55) Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:09:56) [GCC 4.4.3] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok

valhallasw@dorthonion:~/src/pywikipedia/trunk$ cat user-config.py mylang='de' site='botwiki' usernames['botwiki']['de'] = u'valhallasw'

valhallasw@dorthonion:~/src/pywikipedia/trunk$ python generate_family_file.py http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Main%5C_Page botwiki Generating family file from http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Main%5C_Page

================================== api url: http://botwiki.sno.cc/w/api.php MediaWiki version: 1.17.0 ==================================

Determining other languages... Loading wikis... * en... in cache Retrieving namespaces... en Writing families/botwiki_family.py... families/botwiki_family.py already exists. Overwrite? (y/n)y

valhallasw@dorthonion:~/src/pywikipedia/trunk$ python login.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "login.py", line 436, in <module> main() File "login.py", line 431, in main loginMan = LoginManager(password, sysop = sysop, verbose=verbose) File "login.py", line 106, in __init__ raise pywikibot.NoUsername(u'ERROR: Username for %s:%s is undefined.\nIf you have an account for that site, please add such a line to user-config.py:\n\nusernames['%s']['%s'] = 'myUsername'' % (self.site.family.name, self.site.lang, self.site.family.name, self.site.lang)) pywikibot.exceptions.NoUsername: ERROR: Username for botwiki:botwiki is undefined. If you have an account for that site, please add such a line to user-config.py:

usernames['botwiki']['botwiki'] = 'myUsername'

however, the correct error message would be

valhallasw@dorthonion:~/src/pywikipedia/trunk$ python login.py Traceback (most recent call last): File "login.py", line 436, in <module> main() File "login.py", line 431, in main loginMan = LoginManager(password, sysop = sysop, verbose=verbose) File "login.py", line 106, in __init__ raise pywikibot.NoUsername(u'ERROR: Username for %s:%s is undefined.\nIf you have an account for that site, please add such a line to user-config.py:\n\nusernames['%s']['%s'] = 'myUsername'' % (self.site.family.name, self.site.lang, self.site.family.name, self.site.lang)) pywikibot.exceptions.NoUsername: ERROR: Username for botwiki:botwiki is undefined. If you have an account for that site, please add such a line to user-config.py:

usernames['botwiki']['en'] = 'myUsername'