Pywikipedia-l March 2011

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Replace.py should save -- please comment
by Bináris 26 Feb '12

26 Feb '12

Hi! My old problem is that repalce.py can't write the pages to work on into a file on my disk. I have used a modificated version for years that does no changes but writes the title of the involved pages to a subpage on Wikipedia in automated mode, and then I can make the replacements from that page much more quickly than directly from dump or living Wikipedia. This is slow and generates a plenty of dummy edits. In other words, replace.py has a tool to get the titles from a file (-file) or from a wikipage (-links), but has no tool to generate this file. Now I am ready to rewrite it. This way we can start it and the bot will find all the possible articles to work on and save the titles without editing Wikipedia (and without artificial delay), meanwhile we can have the lunch or run a marathon or sleep. Then we make the replacements from this with -file. My idea is that replace.py should have two new parameters: -save writes the results into a new file instead of editing articles. It overwrites existing file without notice. -saveappend writes into a file or appends to the existing one. OR: -save writes and appends (primary mode) -savenew writes and overwrites The help is here: http://docs.python.org/howto/unicode.html#reading-and-writing-unicode-data So we have to import codecs. My script is: articles=codecs.open('cikkek.txt','a',encoding='utf-8') ... tutuzuzu=u'# %s\n' %page.aslink() <-- needs rewrite to the new syntax articles.write(unicode(tutuzuzu)) <-- needs further testing, if nicode() is really needed articles.flush() It works fine except '\n' is a unix-styled newline that has to be converted by lfcr.py in order to make it readable with notepad.exe. This is with constant filename, that should be developed to get from command line. Your opinions before I begin? -- Bináris

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SourceForge passwords
by Bináris 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

Have you also got an e-mail with subject "SourceForge.net passwords reset"? Is that authentic? -- Bináris

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How to read special pages?
by Bináris 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

I want to read a special page with Page.get(). The message is: File "C:\Program Files\Pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 601, in get raise NoPage('%s is in the Special namespace!' % self.aslink()) pywikibot.exceptions.NoPage What is the solution? -- Bináris

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Please approve me for commit access
by MJB 30 Oct '11

30 Oct '11

Hello , Tim Starling told me that i can ask here to approve me for commit access, i am working always with python and as i am working in Persian community, my codes is about working on Persian Wikis you can see a summary here <http://fa.wikinews.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A8%D8%B1:Mjbmrbot#Robot_T…> and i would like to work on localization and some minor edits that would be helpful, here is example of my codes : # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- import wikipedia, urllib, re, os, datetime, calendar from xml.dom import minidom from time import strftime Lang="fa" Family="wikinews" RR = (u'??????', u'?????', u'????', u'?????', u'??', u'????', u'?????', u'???', u'???????', u'?????', u'??????', u'??????') RR2 = (u'January', u'February', u'March', u'April', u'May', u'June', u'July', u'August', u'September', u'October', u'November', u'December') RRfr = (u'janvier', u'février', u'mars', u'avril', u'mai', u'juin', u'juillet', u'août', u'septembre', u'octobre', u'novembre', u'décembre') RRfr2 = (u'Janvier', u'Février', u'Mars', u'Avril', u'Mai', u'Juin', u'Juillet', u'Août', u'Septembre', u'Octobre', u'Novembre', u'Décembre') RR3 = (31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31) MMM = int(strftime("%m")) YYY = strftime("%Y") YYY2 = strftime("%Y") YYY = YYY.replace(u'1', u'1') YYY = YYY.replace(u'2', u'2') YYY = YYY.replace(u'3', u'3') YYY = YYY.replace(u'4', u'4') YYY = YYY.replace(u'5', u'5') YYY = YYY.replace(u'6', u'6') YYY = YYY.replace(u'7', u'7') YYY = YYY.replace(u'8', u'8') YYY = YYY.replace(u'9', u'9') YYY = YYY.replace(u'0', u'0') site = wikipedia.getSite(Lang, Family) FF = "" for i in range(1, RR3[MMM-1] + 1): site = wikipedia.getSite(Lang, Family) DD = str(i) DD2 = str(i) DDfr = str(i) if (DDfr==u'1'): DDfr = u"1er" DDfr2 = str(i) if (len(DDfr2)==1): DDfr2 = u'0' + DDfr2 DD = DD.replace(u'1', u'1') DD = DD.replace(u'2', u'2') DD = DD.replace(u'3', u'3') DD = DD.replace(u'4', u'4') DD = DD.replace(u'5', u'5') DD = DD.replace(u'6', u'6') DD = DD.replace(u'7', u'7') DD = DD.replace(u'8', u'8') DD = DD.replace(u'9', u'9') DD = DD.replace(u'0', u'0') FF = FF + u"== [[/" + DD + u'|' + DD + u' ' + RR[MMM-1] + u"]] ==\n{{/" + DD + u'}}\n\n' pagename = (u'???:' + DD + u' ' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY) page = wikipedia.Page(site, pagename) AA = (u'[[???:' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY + u']]\n[[???:' + DD + u' ' + RR[MMM-1] + u']]\n\n[[en:Category:' + RR2[MMM-1] + u' ' + DD2 + u', ' + YYY2 + u']]\n[[fr:Catégorie:' + DDfr + u' ' + RRfr[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY2 + u']]') CCC = (u'????: ????? ???????? ??? ' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY) wikipedia.output(u"Loading %s..." % pagename) try: text = page.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "Page doesn't exist, creating it ..." page.put(AA, comment=CCC, watchArticle = None, minorEdit = False) pagename = (u'???:' + DD + u' ' + RR[MMM-1]) page = wikipedia.Page(site, pagename) AA = (u'{{' + RR[MMM-1] + u'}}\n{{?????????|{{????????}}}}\n{{??????????-???|' + DD2 + u' ' + RR2[MMM-1] + u'}}\n\n[[en:Category:' + RR2[MMM-1] + u' ' + DD2 + u']]\n[[fr:Catégorie:' + DDfr + u' ' + RRfr[MMM-1] + u']]') CCC = (u'????: ????? ??????? ??? ' + RR[MMM-1]) wikipedia.output(u"Loading %s..." % pagename) try: text = page.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "Page doesn't exist, creating it ..." page.put(AA, comment=CCC, watchArticle = None, minorEdit = False) pagename = (u'????????:' + YYY + u'/' + RR[MMM-1] + u'/' + DD) page = wikipedia.Page(site, pagename) AA = (u'<onlyinclude>\n<DynamicPageList>\ncategory=????????\ncategory=' + DD + u' ' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY + u'\nsuppresserrors=true\nstablepages=only\n</DynamicPageList>\n</onlyinclude>\n\n[[en:Wikinews:' + YYY2 + u'/' + RR2[MMM-1] + u'/' + DD2 + u']]\n[[fr:Wikinews:' + YYY2 + u'/' + RRfr[MMM-1] + u'/' + DDfr2 + u']]') CCC = (u'????: ????? ???????? ??? ' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY) wikipedia.output(u"Loading %s..." % pagename) try: text = page.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "Page doesn't exist, creating it ..." page.put(AA, comment=CCC, watchArticle = None, minorEdit = False) pagename = (u'????????:' + YYY + u'/' + RR[MMM-1]) page = wikipedia.Page(site, pagename) FF = FF + u'[[???:' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY + ']]\n\n[[en:Wikinews:' + YYY2 + u'/' + RR2[MMM-1] + u']]\n[[fr:Wikinews:' + YYY2 + u'/' + RRfr[MMM-1] + ']]' CCC = (u'????: ????? ????? ????? ?? ??? ' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY) wikipedia.output(u"Loading %s..." % pagename) try: text = page.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "Page doesn't exist, creating it ..." page.put(FF, comment=CCC, watchArticle = None, minorEdit = False) pagename = (u'???:' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY) page = wikipedia.Page(site, pagename) AA = (u'[[???:' + RR[MMM-1] + u']]\n[[???:'+ YYY + u']]\n\n[[en:Category:' + RR2[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY2 + u']]\n[[fr:Catégorie:' + RRfr2[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY2 + u']]') CCC = (u'????: ????? ???? ??? ' + RR[MMM-1] + u' ' + YYY) try: text = page.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "Page doesn't exist, creating it ..." page.put(AA, comment=CCC, watchArticle = None, minorEdit = False) pagename = (u'???:' + YYY) page = wikipedia.Page(site, pagename) AA = (u'{{???????????|' + YYY2 + u'}}\n\n[[???:????? ?? ???? ?????]]\n\n[[en:Category:' + YYY2 + u']]\n[[fr:Catégorie:' + YYY2 + u']]') CCC = (u'????: ????? ???? ??? ' + YYY) try: text = page.get() except wikipedia.NoPage: print "Page doesn't exist, creating it ..." page.put(AA, comment=CCC, watchArticle = None, minorEdit = False) This is a simple code that create date category pages and templates, my user name in wmf projects is Mjbmr and i have a bot with Mjbmrbot username that it have a global flag, I hope you accept my request, Regards -- Mjbmr

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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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Date questions
by Bináris 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Hi, is there a function in pywikibot to give any wiki's date format? I made an own regex using format['MonthName'] from date.py, but perhaps there is a simplier way. And is there a function to compare two standard format dates (i.e. ~~~~ or ~~~~~) in any wikis? I can easily write one for Hungarian dates, but I would like to offer my script for other wikis. -- Bináris

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isBotEdit?
by Bináris 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi, I wrote a script that examines articles using fullVersionHistory(). How can I know if a version is edited by a bot or a human? -- Bináris

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import wikipedia
by Marcin Cieslak 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, Whenever I "import wikipedia" (just for example to invoke help(something) or dir(something) few things happen in the background. Most notably some Throttles are initialized, and, if you don't have a user-config.py file, a nice configuration utility is launched. Is it possible that those things happen when one actually attempts to invoke the framework and to just inspect it? An obvious place, to me, is the first invocation of wikipedia.Page.getSite(), but maybe there are some issues? //Marcin

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Featured articles
by Bináris 13 Mar '11

13 Mar '11

Hi! Where are the names of {{Featured article}} templates of different wikis? I have neither found them in interwiki.py nor in families. -- Bináris

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-cat:xxx subcat doesn't work
by Šarūnas . 11 Mar '11

11 Mar '11

Hi! When I trying to work in subcategories, for example* interwiki.py -cat:Argentina -subcat* , bot works only in a category:Argentina but not in subcategories. Some months ago it worked very well, maybe there is a bug now? Greetings, Šarūnas -- salaamdunya.blogspot.com

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