Pywikipedia-l October 2011

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generate_family_file.py for localhost
by Bináris 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

I have a MW 1.17 installation on my computer, and I ran * generate_family_file.py* as written in README-family.txt. Output: Please insert URL to wiki: http://localhost/wiki Please insert a short name (eg: freeciv): local Generating family file from http://localhost/wiki *** WARNING: Api does not seem to be enabled on http://localhost/wiki Traceback (most recent call last): File "generate_family_file.py", line 261, in <module> FamilyFileGenerator(*sys.argv[1:]).run() File "generate_family_file.py", line 60, in run w = Wiki(self.base_url) File "generate_family_file.py", line 235, in __init__ self.server = self.REwgServer.search(data).groups()[0] AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'groups' http://localhost/wiki/api.php gives me the same documentation page as in Wikipedia (note that it has wiki instead of w in URL). Why does it not find the API? And why does it terminate with this error? -- Bináris

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon - 19-20 Nov (Registration & Call for Speakers)
by Lewis Cawte 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

Hello all, Registration is now open and can be found at http://bit.ly/wmukhack11reg. I'd also like to note, that providing there is a little more interest, we will be doing something for early arrivals on the Friday evening... _Call for Speakers_ I'd like some speakers, I don't want to flood the event, but there'll be atleast (hopefully a bit more) an hour of talks over the weekend, including quick lightning talks. If your interested, drop me an email at lewis(a)lewiscawte.info. Feel free to forward this to relevant lists! Thanks, -- Lewis Cawte http://bit.ly/wmukhack11 #wmukhack11 On 20/09/11 22:04, Lewis Cawte wrote: > Greetings all, > > Been some things floating around about this already, but I'm proud to announce Brighton Wikimedia Hackathon. > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011 > > MediaWiki developers are going to meet in Brighton on the South East coast of the United Kingdom to hack anything to do with Wikimedia projects (mediawiki, toolserver, pywikipedia and various other things.) I've been putting this together for a while, with a lot of help from Roan, Reedy, Sumana and various others, and the date has now been confirmed for the 19th and 20th of November 2011 (unfortunatly, it clashes with WikiConference India). If you're intending to come, please add your name here, just so we can start getting an idea of how many people are coming: > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Brighton_Hackathon_2011#Attendees > > I'll be adding more details as they become available, as well as a registration form. > > -- Lewis Cawte >

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where to find pwb documentation
by info＠gno.de 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

It's a mess with the location of pwb documentation. We have several places but where is the right one? we have the old place meta since 2005: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot?uselang=de but also mediawiki since 2005 which is corresponding to mw software itself: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Pywikipediabot&dir=prev&limit=50… Also wikibooks gives us http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Pywikibot Guess when it was created. All 3 versions are quite similar. And you can find a lot of other manuals and guids all over the world, most of them are deprecated in parts. Greetings xqt

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Running the rewrite branch as developer/power-user [windows]
by Merlijn van Deen 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hello all, *As several people have mentioned they had trouble starting with the rewrite branch, I decided to do a step-by-step log of installing the rewrite in a way that is good for developing -- this means you are able to edit the framework files, while not inflicting any changes on other users (or other bots you run!) of the system. By using setup.py develop, edits you make to the framework will immediately be used (no need to setup.py install them), but only within the virtualenv.* *This is the windows version of my earlier email* * * I do not run python on windows, so this is a tutorial that starts with installing python. It's a bit rougher than the unix one, as I did not want to spend too much time on it. 1. Install python 2.7 http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7.1/python-2.7.1.msi<http://python.org/download/> (do *not* use the 64-bit version, due to http://bugs.python.org/issue6792 ) 2. Install Setuptools http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#files 3. Install Virtualenv start/run: cmd c:\Python27\Scripts\easy_install.exe virtualenv 4. create a virtualenv for pwb C:\Users\valhallasw>c:\Python27\Scripts\virtualenv.exe pywikibot New python executable in pywikibot\Scripts\python.exe Installing setuptools.....................done. 5. Go to C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot and use tortoisesvn to get the rewrite 6. create a shortcut to cmd /k c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot\scripts\activate.bat with working path C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot\rewrite 7. Use the shortcut. You now have a new cmd.exe window 8. python setup.py develop Your default user directory is "C:\Users\valhallasw\AppData\Roaming\pywikibot" How to proceed? ([K]eep [c]hange) change, to c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot\conf\ Answer 'y' to the warning prompt (not 'yes') Do you want to copy files: y [note: I copied my unix user-config.py to c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot] Path to existing wikipedia.py? C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot NOTE: user-config.py already exists in the directory Create user-fixes.py file? ([y]es, [N]o) n (pywikibot) C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot\rewrite>echo SET PYWIKIBOT2_DIR=c:\users\valhallasw\pywikibot\conf>> ..\Scripts\activate.bat (DON'T put a space between f and >>!) Close the window, and 9. Use the shortcut from (7) again You should now have a cmd.exe with a working pywikibot setup! (pywikibot) C:\Users\valhallasw\pywikibot\rewrite\scripts>python touch.py Gebruiker:Valhallasw Retrieving 1 pages from wikipedia:nl. Page [[Gebruiker:Valhallasw]] saved NOTE: you *must* use 'python' in front of the script name, or python will not find the pywikibot directory. Good luck! Merlijn

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separate tracker for the rewrite branch?
by info＠gno.de 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

On bug tracker #3408700 [1] I found this remark made by wikipedian: <cite> Just realized that there is a separate tracker for the rewrite branch. This bug has been known there since January 2011. :( https://jira.toolserver.org/browse/PYWP-10 </cite> Really true? I would recommend to keep these things together. [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3408700&group_id=93107&atid… Greetings xqt

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Interwiki.py feature request: Skipping years and dates
by Jon Harald Søby 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I would like to request a new parameter for interwiki.py, namely the option to skip years and dates, including categories for years, deaths and births. These are articles and categories that exist in dozens and dozens of languages, and whenever the bot encounters some it takes ages to get through them, and it almost never finds anything new. We already have -days and -years parameters for working specifically on these, and I would like to request adding the opposite: -nodays and -noyears. Is someone able to implement that? -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>

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interwiki.py and featured.py request: Good implementation of -side
by Jon Harald Søby 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

One last thing to bother you all with. I mentioned this on the list a few years ago, but nothing happened. I think it is much tidier to have the {{Link FA}} etc next to the interwiki link, and it would be nice to be able to properly fix that on the Norwegian Wikipedia. There is the parameter -side in featured.py, that puts the templates next to the interwiki link, *but* that does not co-operate with interwiki.py, so the next time a bot changes the interwiki on a page that has that configuration, it puts all the templates above the interwikis again. So it would be awesome if someone was able to implement this; probably by specifying in a configuration file like wikipedia_family.py or somewhere else that is appropriate, that wikis xx and yy want to have the templates next to the interwiki, and then interwiki.py and replace.py (and possibly cosmetic_changes.py and some other scripts?) will follow that information and (a) put them in the correct place and (b) not move them back. Free cookie for anyone who is able to fix this. :o) (And I promise, that is the last thing I'll bother ya'll with for a while.) -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>

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featured.py feature request: Former featured articles
by Jon Harald Søby 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I would like to request a change in the way the -former parameter works in featured.py. Currently if you specify -former, it looks for a category for former featured articles in a wiki, and then follows the same procedure it normally does with finding interwikis to your language, etc etc. This is not the way it should work. Instead, it should do this: 1. Find occurences of {{Link FA}} in your wiki, then check if the article in the language specified is in the designated category/has the designated template/whatever. For example, if you go to [[no:Sverige]] and it says {{Link FA|ru}}, it should go to the Russian Wikipedia and check whether or not [[ru:Швеция]] contains the template [[ru:Шаблон:Избранная статья]] (or whatever it checks for, that is already specified). 2. If it is in the right category/has the right template/whatever, then do nothing; 3. If it is not in the right category/is missing the template/whatever, remove the {{Link FA}}. This would be much better because: 1. the bot would only focus on the articles it needs to focus on (doesn't check hundreds of articles that do not exist in your language), 2. the bot could check several languages at the same time (for articles that are featured in many many languages, like [[Esperanto]]), 3. it does not rely on a wiki actually having a category for former featured articles (many wikis don't), which is a huge weakness in the current model. So if anybody is able to fix this, that would be great. Sadly I don't know how to do it myself (if I did I would have). -- mvh Jon Harald Søby <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jon_Harald_S%C3%B8by>

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how to force replace.py to avoid wiki links
by W Chaipau 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hello, I downloaded pywikipedia yesterday and am using it on the Assamese Wikipedia. Thanks for a great product! Nevertheless, I have a little difficulty trying to make it do exactly what I want. I am using it to correct some unicode encoding issues. In particular, I am trying to replace some unicode characters by some others. They are very short: at most 3 characters long. But I have been unable to avoid picking up matches inside wikilinks (internal as well as inter-language). Is there a way to do so without employing unicode regularization? Thanks, -- Chaipau Wikipedia

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