 
update the bot to release r10622 or higher and try again with option 

--page="m::Wikimedia Forum" 

double colon or preleading colon now implies main namespace as exprected and was intended for page titles long time ago 

Regards 
xqt 


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Von:     legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com> 
An:      Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org> 
Datum:   28.10.2012 03:10 
Betreff: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] archivebot.py issues 

> If you modify line 293 and remove the "defaultNamespace=3" it should work. 
> Looks like that was introduced in 
> pyrev:10149<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/10149>. 
> Not sure if it was intentional or not. 
> -- Legoktm 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Marco Aurelio <maurelio@gmx.es> wrote: 
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > At Meta-Wiki we've 
> detected<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta:Babel&oldid=43415 
> 73#MiszaBot_has_stopped_archiving_main_ns_pages>that the bot that used to 
> archive pages (MiszaBot) has suddenly stopped 
> > from doing so on main namespace pages. I did tryed with my bot using the 
> > archivebot.py script on a backlogged page, being [[m:Wikimedia Forum]] 
> and 
> > the result is: 
> > 
> >  *Processing [[meta:Wikimedia Forum]] 
> > Looking for: {{User:MiszaBot/config}} in [[meta:User talk:Wikimedia 
> Forum]] 
> > Error occured while processing page [[meta:Wikimedia Forum]] 
> > Traceback (most recent call last): 
> >   File "C:\Python\pywikibot\archivebot.py", line 601, in main 
> >     Archiver = PageArchiver(pg, a, salt, force) 
> >   File "C:\Python\pywikibot\archivebot.py", line 376, in __init__ 
> >     self.loadConfig() 
> >   File "C:\Python\pywikibot\archivebot.py", line 418, in loadConfig 
> >     raise MissingConfigError(u'Missing or malformed template') 
> > MissingConfigError: Missing or malformed template 
> > 
> > C:\Python\pywikibot>* 
> > 
> > Something seems to have changed in the script's code, that now just looks 
> > for Talk and User talk: namespaces. 
> > 
> > Can the script please be fixed so it works on all namespaces again? - A 
> > fix would be deeply appreciated. 
> > 
> > Best regards, M. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > - Marco Aurelio 
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