Commonscat.py and imagecopy.py - Pywikipedia-l

20 Mar 2008


      Hi people,
I wrote a new program for the framework. It's called commonscat.py. You 
can use it to add the commonscat template to categories in your home 
wiki. I tested it at the nl wikipedia and now the template is used in 
about one third of the categories.
I also did a rewrite of imagecopy.py. This list was in the source code:
Known issues/FIXMEs (no critical issues known):
* make it use pagegenerators.py
check
* Some variable names are in Spanish, which makes the code harder to read.
changed most of the variable names
* Depending on sorting within a file category, the "next batch" is sometimes
  not working, leading to an endless loop
Pagegenerators.py doesnt have this problem
* Different wikis can have different exclusion lists. A parameter for the
  exclusion list Uploadbot.localskips.txt would probably be nice.
still working on this
* Bot should probably use API instead of query.php
API, query? Pagegenerators
* Should request alternative name if file name already exists on Commons
Check
* Exits after last file in category was processed, aborting all pending
  threads.
Fixxed the threading part (join at the end to wait for the open threads)
* Should take user-config.py as input for project and lang variables
Pagegenerators takes care of this
* Should require a Commons user to be present in user-config.py before
  working
Not done (yet)
* Should probably have an input field for additional categories
Not done (yet)
* Should probably have an option to change uploadtext with file
Not done (yet)
* required i18n options for NowCommons template (f.e. {{subst:ncd}} on
  en.wp. Currently needs customisation to work properly. Bot was tested
  succesfully on nl.wp (12k+ files copied and deleted locally) and en.wp
  (about 100 files copied and SieBot has bot approval for tagging {{ncd}}
  with this bot)
Still working on this
* {{NowCommons|xxx}} requires the namespace prefix Image: on most wikis
  and can be left out on others. This needs to be taken care of when
  implementing i18n
Still working on this
* This bot should probably get a small tutorial at meta with a few
  screenshots.
Not done (yet)
Beside this list i fixxed the support for "strange" characters, the old 
bot didnt understand them.
It's still work in in progress, but the bot is stable (testing at nl) 
and works much better than the old one.
I would like to have write access to the svn so i can commit my work. Do 
the devs agree with that?
Maarten (aka Multichill)