Pywikipedia-l July 2014

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Pywikibot and Wikimania
by Amir Ladsgroup 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hello all, The submission <https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Bots_and_Pywikibot> about pywikibot got accepted and it'll be given in August 10, 11:30-12:00 And I think that would be awesome if we can work on bugs or developing new features during the wikimania hackathon. Off-topic: Just to make you smile: Things Programmers Say Vs What They Mean <http://www.tickld.com/cdn_image_article/a_538_20140602111023.png> Best -- Amir

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Bug 64881: Port wiktionary tools and move to own repo
by Legoktm 23 Jul '14

23 Jul '14

Hi everyone, Per bug 64881[1], I have copied all of compat's wikitionary/ folder into a separate repository named pywikibot/wiktionary. I also did some minor pep8-ification[2]. The tests were failing though[3], and I don't understand the code enough to fix them. However, now compat also has a copy of the code. Should we just turn wiktionary/ into a submodule pointing at the separate repository? Also, AFAIS wiktionary.py is just a copy of all the individual files combined together. I'm not sure what to do with it. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64881 [2] https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/148243/ [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68348 -- Legoktm

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new CommonsDelinker repo
by Ricordisamoa 21 Jul '14

21 Jul '14

It seems from bugzilla:64850 <https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64850> and gerrit:131331 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/131331/> that we're going to split the CommonsDelinker out of our codebase. Can I request a new repository? What about the name?

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new bot standard
by Ricordisamoa 20 Jul '14

20 Jul '14

I hereby propose to create a common way for bot classes to 'pipe' the changed text to other classes without saving it directly to the wiki. So, botops could do something like: python pwb.py pipe [generator] scripts/harvest_template [options] + scripts/weblinkchecker [options] + scripts/replace [options] to make custom replacements, check external links and enrich Wikidata with a single edit (except for the Wikidata import process).

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Panoramiopicker.py in core?
by Strainu 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hi, Having found a few interested pictures with historic monuments on Panoramio, I've ported panoramiopicker.py for core. In the process, I did a "few hacks" in order to get a complete description page for my use-case, so I've ended up with a messy code, quite far from the original. However, the script is now more permissive with the layout changes and even recognises cc-by licenses. My question is: is anyone using or at least planning to use this script? The effort to clean the code and have it reviewed is non-trivial and I will only make it if anyone is interested. Thanks, Strainu

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Gerrit
by Ricordisamoa 18 Jul '14

18 Jul '14

Hey guys, we've got a huge backlog. One of the main requirements to comply with mw:API:Client code/Gold standard <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Gold_standard> is the speed of code-review processes.

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18 Jul '14

Many of our scripts have copyright notices at the top like this (category.py): # (C) Rob W.W. Hooft, 2004 and then: # (C) Pywikibot team, 2008-2013 even if most contributors (e.g. Rob W.W. Hooft) are regularly listed in CREDITS. Is it to mark the main contributors? I haven't seen that notices being updated for months, even when some scripts get significantly improved or rewritten.

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Feedback on pywikibot-core
by Frances Hocutt 08 Jul '14

08 Jul '14

Hello all, This summer I am working on a project to evaluate and improve the available MediaWiki web API client libraries. As pywikibot met the initial criteria of quality, features, and development status I chose to evaluate it in more depth. There is now a "gold standard"[1] that will be used to find and enable the listing of particularly well-designed and easy-to-use MediaWiki web API client libraries--I've now evaluated several Python libraries against this standard and suggested additions and changes that would help them meet the standard. First, thank you all for contributing to pywikibot and its community of users! My evaluation for pywikibot is posted here.[2] Pywikibot is impressively full-featured (including Wikidata API coverage), and it makes it possible for bot runners and wiki maintainers to quickly get started automating wiki management tasks. Some areas that could be improved include expanded and centralized documentation, efficiency in use of API calls, and making the setup process lighter-weight and easier to use. I will follow up by posting specific suggestions to Bugzilla[3] later this week. If you have comments or questions, please feel free to post on the evaluation talk page, respond to the bugs filed, or make corrections on the evaluation page if I've missed something. -Frances Hocutt MediaWiki intern [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Gold_standard [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_code/Evaluations/Pywikibot [3] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&product=Py…

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cap_answerwikipedia?
by Mpaa 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Hi. Anyone knowing what is cap_answerwikipedia called in site.py is supposed to do and where it comes from? Thanks Mpaa

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