Hi Alex,

I'm not sure what you are proposing - what do you want to prune off, exactly, and how is python-wikitools [1] related to this? 

We already have 'a real "pywikipedia core" containing nothing but really needed modules to run basics with personal scripts.' - it's called pywikibot-core ;-). We do package scripts in the scripts/ subdirectory, but they are completely seperate from the base framework.

Alternatively, if you want a smaller framework, there are some alternatives: python-wikitools is one of them, but there's also mwclient [2] and, for instance, Yuvi's python-mwapi, which is really close to the API level.

Best,

Merlijn

[1] https://code.google.com/p/python-wikitools/

[2] https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient

[3] https://github.com/yuvipanda/python-mwapi

On 20 August 2013 10:58, Alex Brollo <alex.brollo@gmail.com> wrote:

While first comparing piwikipedia and wikitools, I have been astonished to see how much light and simple are scripts to run a bot and "do basic things", ti: reading and writing pages, access to API, and so on. 

I'll try - consider that I'm far from skilled or "professional" - to prune off from pywikipedia any script but the basic ones, covered by wikitools, just to have some personal fun; but I encourage developers to do something similar, writing a real "pywikipedia core" containing nothing but really needed modules to run basics with personal scripts.

I presume that the result will exclude 95% or more of present pwykipedia content.  

Alex brollo

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