Installation - Pywikipedia-l

9 Apr 2008

Hi,

Can anyone recommend some good trouble shooting/debugging websites for 
setting up Pywikipedia.

I have followed the installation instructions on 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Using_the_python_wikipediabot but when I 
try running the "login.py" it fails, output attached below. I guess I 
have missed something but I can't see what it is and I am not sure how 
to debug it.  Searching this archive for "installation" or "login" has

not helped.

I have set up a new testwiki on a local machine, the user name for my 
bot is correctly register and work for the actual wiki.

I have included my user-config.py and testwiki_family.py files, in case 
it is an obvious silly mistake.

Thanks for your help

Joe

# python version.py ####################################################
Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including 
the current process.
Pywikipedia  (r5199 (wikipedia.py), Apr 08 2008, 19:34:47)
Python 2.4.4c1 (#2, Mar  7 2008, 02:53:24)
[GCC 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)]
#################################################################

# Error message ######################################################
python login.py
Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running, including 
the current process.
Password for user RDFbot on testwiki:en:
Logging in to testwiki:en as RDFbot
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "login.py", line 277, in ?
    main()
  File "login.py", line 273, in main
    loginMan.login()
  File "login.py", line 219, in login
    cookiedata = self.getCookie()
  File "login.py", line 131, in getCookie
    response, data = self.site.postForm(address, predata, useCookie=False)
  File "/home/joe/software/wiki/pywikipedia_svn/wikipedia.py", line 
4008, in postForm
    raise ServerError(e)
wikipedia.ServerError: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
##############################################################

# user-config.py #####################################################
mylang = 'en'
family = 'testwiki'
usernames['testwiki']['en'] = 'RDFbot'
console_encoding = 'utf-8'
#################################################################

# testwiki_family.py ####################################################
# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
import family

# The testwiki.

class Family(family.Family):
    def __init__(self):
        family.Family.__init__(self)
        self.name = 'testwiki'

        self.langs = { 
            'en': '"server_path"/testwiki',
        }

        self.namespaces[4] = {
                    '_default': u'TestWiki',
        }

        self.namespaces[5] = {
                    '_default': u'TestWiki talk',
        }

        self.biglangs = ['en']

    def path(self, code):
        return '/%s/index.php' % code #The language code is included in 
the path

    def version(self, code):
        return "1.12"

##########################################################

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