Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Pywikipedia-svn] SVN: [6674] trunk/pywikipedia/pagegenerators.py

shizhao@svn.wikimedia.org ha scritto:

Revision: 6674 Author: shizhao Date: 2009-04-22 18:31:25 +0000 (Wed, 22 Apr 2009)

Log Message:

add new parameter: "-gorandom". Specifies that the robot should starting at the random pages returned by [[Special:Random]].

[...]

+-gorandom Specifies that the robot should starting at the random pages

•              returned by [[Special:Random]].
  

"""

@@ -1009,6 +1012,14 @@ transclusionPageTitle)) gen = ReferringPageGenerator(transclusionPage, onlyTemplateInclusion=True)

•    elif arg.startswith('-gorandom'):
  

•        for firstPage in RandomPageGenerator(number = 1):
  

•            firstPageTitle = firstPage.title()
  

•        namespace = wikipedia.Page(site, firstPageTitle).namespace()
  

•        firstPageTitle = wikipedia.Page(site,
  

•                             firstPageTitle).titleWithoutNamespace()
  

•        gen = AllpagesPageGenerator(firstPageTitle, namespace,
  

•                                    includeredirects=False)
     elif arg.startswith('-start'):
         if arg.startswith('-startxml'):
             wikipedia.output(u'-startxml : wrong parameter')
  
  

I don't agree to implement this option. It isn't necessary request a page to [[Special:Random]] to get a hint about what download with [[Special:Allpages]]. And doesn't look for me useful an user option to do that or similar thing.