On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Russell Blau russblau@imapmail.org wrote:
I am at a point where it would be helpful to have some feedback from other Pywikipedia users about the future of the rewrite branch. As those who watch the SVN commits know, I have not had as much time to work on this lately, and have to prioritize what time I do spend on it.
For those who have used the rewrite branch, what (if anything) needs to be done to it to get you to use it exclusively and retire the old wikipedia.py system? What is missing? What is broken? What is present but could be improved?
I'm already using it, although I'm not doing bots but some kind of statistical analysis. So I use it for read only. I'm using the rewrite branch, which fits me way better than the old branch. For example, handling different Revisions of the same page is much easier in the rewrite branch. I would export more of that functionality. I use the Revision class, so I export it myself.
I wrote a couple of emails to the list recently explaining my use and various suggestions for improvement.
Right now, the thing I miss the most is a proper API for accessing XML dumps. I'm currently using a half-baked xmlreader.py based on the old one.
Best regards,