Pywikipedia-l April 2014

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Please add your bots and scripts to ohloh stats
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 05 May '14

05 May '14

Hello, I've created a ohloh project to get stats about all those bots and scripts, often based on PWB, that can be found around. For now I added 50. https://www.ohloh.net/p/wikibots Please add yours, or those you know of! It only takes a couple clicks. https://www.ohloh.net/p/wikibots/enlistments/new I know that publishing and listing your code is boring, but the incentive here is that you get pretty graphs. :) Nemo

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Diverse Coding Projects
by Hannes Röst 30 Apr '14

30 Apr '14

Dear Pywikipedia team I have pushed a few of my coding projects using pywikipedia (the compat version) to github and I thought that some of you might be interested in the code. I had some time recently to clean up the code and bring it into a (hopefully) useable format and I would be willing to make further adjustments if you think the code would be more useful to you if I changed a few things. Ultimately my hope would be that the code will find its home in the pywikipedia repository. Also some of the code that I wrote might be duplicated and already present in the core, if so I would apologize and you can happily ignore it. == Template parser == https://github.com/hroest/pywikibot-compat/tree/feature/template_parser For one bot project on the German Wikipedia I had to parse rather complex templates and replace specific fields. The templates would contain nested templates, math formulas and references inside. I thus wrote a template parser which would parse these templates and return them as key-value pairs which would make it easy to query specific keys and replace their values. The code worked well on several thousand templates of the German chemistry project and should be rather straightforward to use. This is library code, so there is no bot associated with it, see templateparser.py and tests/test_templateparser.py In order to correctly handle nesting and properly differentiate equal signs belonging to key-value pairs from those in mathematical formulas etc, I also had to write a partial wikimedia syntax parser which would recognize such syntax in wikitext. This code is in textrange_parser.py and allows to extract specific parts of a text (e.g. wikitables, templates, wikilinks, weblinks), tests are in tests/test_textrange_parser.py == Spellchecking == https://github.com/hroest/pywikibot-compat/tree/feature/spellcheck I added two new spellchecking bots, one based on hunspell which is the same spellchecker that also libreoffice uses (spellcheck_hunspell.py) and another one based on a negative list (spellcheck_blacklist.py). They run from the commandline, both parse the given wiki text, skip text ranges that usually do not only contain human-readable text (templates, tables etc) and check each word against a spellchecking engine (again, either a simple blacklist or a full-blown spellchecker that has stemming and morphological analysis like hunspell). These spellcheckers may turn out to be useful since the understand part of the Wiki markup and know which parts of a text to spellcheck and which parts not. The wrong words can be processed interactively and each word can be confirmed individually and then sent to Wikipedia to be corrected. I have a bot with which I do this semi-automatically and I have so far corrected 3000+ spelling mistakes on the German Wikipedia https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/HRoestTypo For large scale processing, one can process a complete Wikipeda XML dump and for small-scale processing one can use the Wikipedia web-search functionality to search for articles with a specific spelling error and then only process these pages. == Review edits == https://github.com/hroest/pywikibot-compat/tree/feature/review_pages In the German Wikipedia, there is considerable work done reviewing individual edits and marking them as reviewed. In the above feature/review_pages branch there is a script called review_pages which allows to perform reviews of revisions semi-automatically. It fetches for a given page the revision history up to the last reviewed change and displays the changes between the current and the last reviewed version of the article on the command line. The user can then interactively decide to accept the review, undo the change or go to the next unreviewed change. For this bot, a mediawiki APIs are used and thus it may not actually be suitable for the compat version of pywikipedia. Reviewing, undoing and retrieving full version histories are done through the APIs and can be performed fully asynchronous. This allows relatively fast interactive response while the bot in the background fetches the revision histories and performs the review/undo actions requested by the user. == Summary == I provide this code in the hope that it is useful for people and if somebody thinks that the described functionality could be provided from the pywikibot project, I would be willing to work to make necessary adjustments for the code to be merged. Best regards Hannes

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Bot request: 250+ thousands person data
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 27 Apr '14

27 Apr '14

Wikidata feels empty... even data on people is almost non-existing. The Italian Wikipedia has the most complete persondata dataset in Wikimedia world, ready for import. Legoktm's bot was almost ready to parse the {{bio}} template, some code tweaking will be needed. No takers, really? This is very low hanging fruit for bots. <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Bot_requests#Persons_and_it.wikipedia> <https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:BioBot> <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Legobot/properties.js#Italian_perso…> Nemo

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Wikidata-tech] Heads up: Changes to API error codes
by Maarten Dammers 20 Apr '14

20 Apr '14

Hi Daniel, Daniel Kinzler schreef op 15-4-2014 19:16: > Today, Thiemo merged my patch introducing the ApiErrorReporter class: > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124323/>. This should help us with > providing error reports from the API in a consistent manner; This way, we will > hopefully soon be able to provide more localized error messages too. > > However, this means that some of the error codes used by the API may have > changed, and more will change when more API modules start using this module. > Also, it means that localized messages are included in a slightly different way. > If you rely on error codes or localized error messages, please keep an eye out > for breakage in that regard. Did you document this somewhere? I assume we have to modify Pywikibot a bit so would be nice to have a good overview. Maarten

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maintenance-bot
by Amir Ladsgroup 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hello all, I just finished setting up a system to update codes of core and compat (for now just updating language by size but developing this system is very easy and very soon I'll add other things) As a result you can see this commit <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/125009>that has been done completely automatically and I just reviewed it, if anything goes well and if there is no objection I'll give the bot +2 access and set up a system to do the review automatically as well (like l10-bot) I set to cron for day of 1 and 3 of every week to do this for core and compat I will run this bot with xqt, thank you xqt! What do you think about this? Best -- Amir

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] versionHistories
by info＠gno.de 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

I can reproduce the error given by traceback if I use a wrong path to start a script. But I cannot reproduce the syntax error. This means the source might be corrupt and the object file cannot be created. This may cause the import error. Because version.py and pywikibot.__init__ gives a rigth traceback message I bet on the wikipedia.py. Seems it has illegal characters on the first line or something like this. Binariz: where did you downloaded the framework? I'll try to investigate into that matter. You may use the path setting for compat or core release but it may also be omitted. You also my use git or svn repository. I use it both: git for development, svn for the bot. The nightly dump is also available which works without these version control Systems but it is hard to use with local changes at the framework's scripts because you have to merge new code yourself. What does it mean "back to the roots?" Greetings xqt ----- Original Nachricht ---- Von: John <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com> An: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Datum: 05.04.2014 17:50 Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] versionHistories > Its not a path issue, compat doesnt use it, odds are someone fucked up the > code, especially with the changes in the last two years or so where we > moved away from what pywiki's origin. At the point where we require either > git, or svn to be installed just begs for something to break. Instead of > depending on the repo lets get back to our roots. > > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 2014-04-05 15:16 GMT+02:00 <info(a)gno.de>: > > > > The monkey-patch for importing "pywikibot" directly instead of > "wikipedia" > >> was done in November 2012. It should run as expected. > >> > >> Do you have any Setting für PYWIKIBOT_DIR? > >> > > I don't know about it. Should I have? I didn't have als for the prevoius > > version which worked. > > > > > >> The error sound like you have a wrong path to the Framework or a > absolute > >> path at your command line. > >> > >> Could you tell me your framework path and the whole command line > invoking > >> the script? > >> > > > > c:\Pywikipedia, since 2006 December. I open this directory in Total > > Commander, then start a command line directly from this dir, then I type > > the script name. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > > Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > > > > -------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] versionHistories
by info＠gno.de 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Did you change the frameworks path with your update? xqt ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Bináris Gesendet: 05.04.2014 08:52 An: Pywikipedia discussion list Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] versionHistories What kind of configuration this mess wants me? As far as I know trunk never needed any configuration except user files. Tell me only one reason not to be angry. 2014-04-05 8:39 GMT+02:00 Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com>: Next stage. It becomes more and more horroristic. I downloaded the latest "compat" from nightlies and unpacked. It is one third in size than that of 11 January. After unpacking version.py says: c:\Pywikipedia>version.py syntax error: line 1, column 0 Serious import error; pywikibot not available - was it configured? Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Pywikipedia\version.py", line 20, in <module> pywikibot.output('Pywikibot: %s' % getversion()) AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'output' version.py may have perhaps misunderstood something, I didn't want to configure anything, i just wanted to update my WORKING copy. Then I tried to restore the previous version but the result is the same, my Pywikibot does not work any more. I had a working version and tried to update it in a normal way before somebody cleverly asks me to do so, and I only have broken ruins. I am totally fed up with this whole mess! Give us back Pywikibot! -- Bináris

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] versionHistories
by info＠gno.de 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

Cannot follow. In which way does it fix the import error? xqt ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Amir Ladsgroup Gesendet: 05.04.2014 10:39 An: Pywikipedia discussion list Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] versionHistories I made a patch to fix it https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/121891 Review it please :) On 4/5/14, Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com> wrote: > What kind of configuration this mess wants me? > As far as I know trunk never needed any configuration except user files. > Tell me only one reason not to be angry. > > > 2014-04-05 8:39 GMT+02:00 Bináris <wikiposta(a)gmail.com>: > >> Next stage. It becomes more and more horroristic. >> I downloaded the latest "compat" from nightlies and unpacked. >> It is one third in size than that of 11 January. >> After unpacking version.py says: >> c:\Pywikipedia>version.py >> syntax error: line 1, column 0 >> Serious import error; pywikibot not available - was it configured? >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "C:\Pywikipedia\version.py", line 20, in <module> >> pywikibot.output('Pywikibot: %s' % getversion()) >> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'output' >> >> version.py may have perhaps misunderstood something, I didn't want to >> configure anything, i just wanted to update my WORKING copy. >> Then I tried to restore the previous version but the result is the same, >> my Pywikibot does not work any more. I had a working version and tried to >> update it in a normal way before somebody cleverly asks me to do so, and >> I >> only have broken ruins. >> >> >> *I am totally fed up with this whole mess!* >> Give us back Pywikibot! >> > > > > -- > Bináris > -- Amir _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l

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versionHistories
by Bináris 05 Apr '14

05 Apr '14

print len(page.getVersionHistory(getAll=True, reverseOrder=True)) print len(page.fullVersionHistory(getAll=True, reverseOrder=True)) 3838 258 Where did I make a mistake? Framework is of 1 January, did something change since then concerning fullVersionHistory? -- Bináris

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Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Pywikipedia-bugs] [Bug 63327] Migrate i18n file format to JSON
by John 02 Apr '14

02 Apr '14

Actually it would, each new file introduces more disk read time, file open, file close time. Then depending on the language it may have to create a new json parser, parse the file, and then destroy the json parser. With 1-2 files its not that big of a deal, but as it scales up the issue becomes more and more of a bottle neck On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, <bugzilla-daemon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63327 > > --- Comment #2 from Niklas Laxström <niklas.laxstrom(a)gmail.com> --- > It shouldn't matter too much whether N messages are in 50 or 1000 files > (made > up numbers) on the time how much it takes to parse them. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are the assignee for the bug. > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-bugs mailing list > Pywikipedia-bugs(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-bugs >

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