Bugs item #2061186, was opened at 2008-08-20 03:26 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by a_engels You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=2061186...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: General Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 8 Private: No Submitted By: Woo-Jin Kim (kwj2772) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Special:Allpages now requires "to" parameter

Initial Comment: I have found serious bug on interwiki.py I'm using Pywikipedia revision 5816.

Error message: C:\Python25\pywikipedia\interwiki.py -autonomous -lang:en -start:! Checked for running processes. 1 process currently running, including currently process. NOTE:Number of pages queued is 0, trying to add 60 more. Retreiving Allpages special page for wikipedia:en from %21, namespace 0 NOTE:Nothing to left to do

Why nothing to left to do?

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Comment By: Andre Engels (a_engels)

Date: 2008-08-20 11:49

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Direct quotes of the reactions:

"The User Interface is designed for users. The python Wikipedia framework, therefore, should use the API, and then it won't have these problems."

"The API has existed for awhile, and the UI should not be depended on for any automated things."

In other words, they regard it as our own fault for not using the API.

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Comment By: Daniel Herding (wikipedian) Date: 2008-08-20 11:43

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The problem now is: In the new version of Special:Allpages, you need not only a "from" parameter, but also a "to" parameter to get page titles. This makes things really complicated for us, as we first need to find out the title of the "to" page.

The following strategy could work:

* The user runs interwiki.py -start:Foo * The bot loads http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=Foo * Using regular expressions or BeautifulSoap, the bot searches for lines like "Foo to Forbes Fictional 15", and follows the links. * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllPages&from=Foo&... is split again, so we need to do this recursively. * Now http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllPages&from=Foo&... is a normal page that we can parse with our existing code.

The nicer solution, of course, would be to add a "limit" parameter to Special:Allpages, so that http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllPages&from=Foo&am... would give us the page in a useful format. But from what Andre wrote, I guess that begging the MediaWiki devs for that won't have any effects.

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Comment By: Andre Engels (a_engels) Date: 2008-08-20 10:56

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Yes, Special:Allpages has changed, and we already got the "fuck off, we don't care about your framework" response when complaining.

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Comment By: Multichill (multichill) Date: 2008-08-20 10:50

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I first noticed this last night. I have this problem on different systems (WinXP/BSD/Linux), all running the latest version. I noticed it with imageuncat.py, but interwiki.py didnt work either. I doesnt seem to matter which wiki you want to work on (nl and commons both didnt work).

Brion told me that Special:AllPages changed recently.

python version.py Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r5819, Aug 20 2008, 08:09:06) Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Aug 14 2008, 13:31:58) [GCC 4.3.1]

python imageuncat.py -start:Image:AChecked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including the current process. Retrieving Allpages special page for commons:commons from A, namespace 6 <done>

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Comment By: Mikko Silvonen (silvonen) Date: 2008-08-20 07:15

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Yep, the allpages method in wikipedia.py doesn't seem to find any pages, so the -start parameter doesn't work at all. Has the format of Special:Allpages changed, or what is causing this problem? But now it's time for my day job...

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