Solution to Automatic generation of templates descriptions - Pywikipedia-l

6 Aug 2012


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From: Yury Katkov katkov.juriy@gmail.com
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Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:05:03 +0400
Subject: [Pywikipedia-l] Automatic generation of templates descriptions
Hello! Is there a bot or extension that can generate stubs of template
descriptions by template wikitext? It should be pretty simple: the bot will
just grab all template parameters {{{PARAMETER}}} and lists those
parameters.
If no such extensions exists could anybody tell how to programaticaly get
the parameters of a given template?
Hi Yury,
I actually just solved this problem myself. There is indeed a method of
pywikipediabot that does this - it's called templatesWithParams()
Here is a code example where I am looking to get see what the "VIAF"
parameter is of the {{Authority Control}} template:
def determineAuthorityControlTemplate(nameOfPage):
    """returns 'noACtemplate' if no Authority Control Template,
'templateNoVIAF' if AC      template but no VIAF number,
    and returns the viaf number if it exists"""
    namepage = Page(enwp,nameOfPage)
    templates = namepage.templatesWithParams() #here we load the templates
into a list
    for template in templates: # go through the templates
        if template[0] == 'Authority control': # are we looking at the
right template?
            for param in template[1]: #go through the paramaters of the
template
                if param[:4] == 'VIAF': #are we looking at the right
parameter?
                    return param[5:]
            return 'templateNoVIAF'
    return 'noACtemplate'
Best,
Max
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Sincerely yours,
Yury Katkov

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