Pywikipedia-l January 2013

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Automatic generation of templates descriptions
by Yury Katkov 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hello! Is there a bot or extension that can generate stubs of template descriptions by template wikitext? It should be pretty simple: the bot will just grab all template parameters {{{PARAMETER}}} and lists those parameters. If no such extensions exists could anybody tell how to programaticaly get the parameters of a given template? Sincerely yours, ----- Yury Katkov

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Overmagnified pictures
by Bináris 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi folks, Is there a tool to hunt for overmagnified pictures and restore them? I mean when a JPG is originally 150 px and is rendered to 300 px in the article which is a useless enlargement and results in an ugly picture. Or do we have any part of it, e.g. determining the size of a picture? I think JPG is the main subject, GIFs are perhaps less involved and SVG is of course problemless. -- Bináris

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Calling _getUserDataOld in wikipedia.getUrl???
by Marcin Cieslak 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

I just wanted to put() a simple page on a MediaWiki 1.16 instance, where I have to use screen scraping (use_api=False). There is something strange however: There is an API call invoked by _getBlocked: /w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo Here's my backtrace: File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 693, in get expandtemplates = expandtemplates) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 743, in _getEditPage return self._getEditPageOld(get_redirect, throttle, sysop, oldid, change_edit_time) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 854, in _getEditPageOld text = self.site().getUrl(path, sysop = sysop) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5881, in getUrl self._getUserDataOld(text, sysop = sysop) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6016, in _getUserDataOld blocked = self._getBlock(sysop = sysop) File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5424, in _getBlock data = query.GetData(params, self) File "pywikipedia/query.py", line 146, in GetData jsontext = site.getUrl( path, retry=True, sysop=sysop, data=data) getUrl(), which is also called from API, seems always to call _getUserDataOld(text) where text is ... API output so it tries to do strange things on that and gives warnings like Note: this language does not allow global bots. WARNING: Token not found on wikipedia:pl. You will not be able to edit any page. which is nonsense since the analyzed text is not HTML - only API output. If getUrl() is supposed to be a low-level call, why call _getUserDataOld() there? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/7461 has introduced this call there. It's easily reproducable by this: import wikipedia import config config.use_api = False wikipedia.verbose = True s = wikipedia.getSite("pl", "wikipedia") p = wikipedia.Page(s, u"User:Saper") c = p.get() c += "" p.put(c, u"Testing wiki", botflag=False) //Saper

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Problems with pageimport.py on 3rd party wiki
by Gregory Varnum 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Having problems with pageimport.py on a third-party wiki (WikiQueer). Anyone else having issues with that script? I'm calling it from a script I'm playing around with - but no luck. It doesn't error out - but it doesn't import and confirms that the import failed. Here's the "test" script I'm working from: import wikipedia as pywikibot from pageimport import * def main(): wanted_category_title = "Apple" enwiki_site = pywikibot.getSite() importerbot = Importer(enwiki_site) # Inizializing importerbot.Import(wanted_category_title,project='wikipedia', prompt = True) try: main() finally: pywikibot.stopme() On a related note, the ultimate goal is to import pages for "Wanted Categories" from English Wikipedia into the third-party wiki. Any ideas, tips or existing code to that end would also be appreciated. Thanks! -greg aka varnent ------- Gregory Varnum Lead, Aequalitas Project Lead Administrator, WikiQueer Founding Principal, VarnEnt @GregVarnum fb.com/GregVarnum

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Daylight saving
by Bináris 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi folks, is there a piece of code in pywiki that determines easily if the current time zone is summer or winter time? (Last Sunday of March, 3 o'clock -- last Sunday of October, 2 o'clock) -- Bináris

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pywikipediabot commit
by Avocato 02 Feb '13

02 Feb '13

User:Avocato ;Preferred git username: avocato ;Preferred shell username: avocato ;Did you previously have SVN access?: Yes ;Email address: avocatomail(a)gmail.com I already have the commit access (accessing to Gerrit and Wikimedia Labs), now, I request pywikipediabot commit. -- *User:Avocato--*

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Thank you for the bad joke :-(
by Bináris 20 Jan '13

20 Jan '13

Hi, I worked a lot on a script that created a page under my bot's user page, finally after tests I renamed it<http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Elavult_m%C3%A1svi…>to project namespace. At the next run the bot worked 8 minutes (hard to wait if you want to work with the result), and finally stopped at the last moment instead of saving the page. Sorry, I forgot to copy the screen, the essence is that it claimed my page to be *locked* (what I thought to be protected). I didn't understand, and I spent a lot of time with investigating and understanding what happened. The page was not protected, of course. The result of my investigation is that when the bot finds its own name in the last edit comment (that was the fact because of renaming), it supposes that the last edit was a revert of its previous edit (why?), and denies saving with a fake and misleading "page locked" exception. The code in wikipedia.py is: elif self.comment() and username in self.comment(): raise LockedPage( u'Not allowed to edit %s because last edit maybe reverted' % self.title(asLink=True)) (line 1970) Of course, these type of messages in the argument of *raise* won't appear on user's screen, it is hidden into the source code. For some reason, Python does not show the message in user exceptions. This was my first experience with this kind of error so I was first frightened and confused and finally found out that I should use a force=True parameter, and so after waiting another 8 minutes I could save the page. I solved the case and lost 15-20 minutes. Is there really a serious reason to suppose that having found the name of the bot in the last edit comment marks a revert and to prevent the bot of saving the result of its work? Bináris.unhappy.hu <http://xn--binris-rta.unhappy.hu>

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Coordinates
by Bojan Kalkan 18 Jan '13

18 Jan '13

Is there someone who has or is wiling to share/make bot that will place coordinates template (in decimal format rather than DMS) at top or bottom of articles that have have not such template?

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Wikidata & interwiki behavior
by info＠gno.de 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

I am preparing an easy way to create a DataPage from a Page object. This enables to integrate wikidata to interwiki and run it in just a similar way as with other pages. More follows asap... xqt ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Amir Ladsgroup Gesendet: 17.01.2013 17:27 An: jan.dudik(a)volny.cz; Pywikipedia discussion list Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Wikidata & interwiki behavior On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jan Dudík <jan.dudik(a)gmail.com> wrote: There might be possibility to solve conflict as it is i current interwiki.py with preffering wikidata version? it's a very interesting idea. Is there a way someone tell me how we can do it? about other things i think we can simply make a list of the articles in each cases by using toolserver -- Amir

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Wikidata & interwiki behavior
by Jan Dudík 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Maybe we should define default behavior for interwiki bots with live wikidata, because now is hu.wiki ignored and incorrect links are not repaired and on wikidata (and hu.wiki) are missing new articles from other wikis. 1) starting page have interwiki & no conflict found & wikidata backlink exists (it means exactly onem without conflict, in other case go to 3)) 2) starting page have interwiki & no conflict found & wikidata backlink does not exists 3) starting page have interwiki & conflict found 4) starting page have no interwiki & wikidata backlink exists 5) starting page have no interwiki & wikidata backlink does not exists for cases 1) and 4) should bot update wikidata and sites without wikidata, on wikidata sites (actually hu) remove interwiki for case 2) shoud create wikidata item and remove/update other sites what about case 3) ? There might be possibility to solve conflict as it is i current interwiki.py with preffering wikidata version? And what about case 5)? should bot create wikidata item or not? JAnD 2013/1/17 Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com>: > Here is how to detect presence of Wikidata from API: > https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Wikidata:Project_chat&oldid=4469… > > -- > Bináris > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > -- -- Ing. Jan Dudík

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