I would suggest
1. going to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot , downloading and installing the bot
2. reading source code of smaller bots in the collection, and documentation of bigger ones
3. trying things out on your wiki.
Jarek T.
User:jarekt
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Dear all,
Hello, I am Gabriel Chi Hong Lee from Hong Kong, I would like to ask that where is the correct place to learn how to make an pywikipedia-bot? I have a own wiki that I can try it on there. Please give me some advise. Thank you!
Gabriel Lee
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:38:05 +0100
From: Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Pywikipedia-l] Table of contents for scripts and fixes
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Hi gurus,
I have suffered for a long time because I have quite a lot of fixes and I
can hardly find my way in this jungle and keep a logical order and find old
ones.
So I decided to write a script that creates a table of contents int
fixes.py/user-fixes.py.
Then I thought it should also list main-level variables and functions
(Python is very good at dissolving main-level things from others :-)). As I
already wrote earlier, I use several own functions for my fixes ([1]). And
also header lines of some predefined format. All this script needs a place
to insert the TOC which should be a predefined constant line, e.g.
# *** CONTENTS *** #
(If the script finds the corresponding END CONTENTS line, it clears the
previous TOC from between these two.)
But then I realized that enhanced with classes this would be useful for any
kind of scripts without extra work. For example in wikipedia.py which is
now long, long, and hard to overview.
Of course, there would be a possibility to leave some kind of data (e.g.
"no variables please, only functiions and classes"), and two approaches for
ordering (everything in original order, or fisrt the variables, then
functions, then fixes...).
Unfortunately, in some rare cases the length of a line may excced the 80
characters, which may cause PEP8 and/or Xqt beiing sad. :-)
How does this concept sound?
I will anyhow write it for my own purposes. It is just about community use
for complicated scripts such as fixes.py or wikipedia.py.
[1]
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szerkeszt%C5%91:Bin%C3%A1ris/Fixes_and_functions_HOWTO
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Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:48:24 +0100
From: Bináris <wikiposta@gmail.com>
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Subject: [Pywikipedia-l] Renaming of some German-specific fixes
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Hi,
I recommend to rename two fixes in fixes.py.
datum --> datum-de
music --> music-de
These are both German-specific while their names might be used for other
languages, too, and this is annoying.
I will do that if there are no strong objections. (Bot owners who use them
and don't read the list will then get an error message with the available
fixes and will easily find the new names.)
Moreover, it's a good philosophical question, how much to include
language-specific fixes in the common file. I have several dozens of
Hungarian fixes and never committed them. :-)
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