At the Lyon Hackthon, updates to the tarball releases were turned off, and Pywikibot 2.0 release candidate (RC) 1 was published onto PYPI. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywikibot The tarball releases are currently locked to the git revision before the Lyon Hackathon. This was done to prevent large code merges affecting users of the tarballs and Wikimedia labs shared pywikibot. There was one large change merged for RC 1, and there are a few more large changes which will be merged before the final pywikibot 2.0. I suggest bot operators avoid the unstable master by not updating regularly using git, but using the labs shared version or the pip package. We'll announce each new release candidate for people to upgrade to. Anyone wanting only the library, without any of the traditional scripts, can now use: $ sudo pip install --pre pywikibot The --pre is needed because the current published version is a pre-release, and modern pip doesnt install those without being explicitly told to do that. Technical documentation, including an up-to-date API reference, is now being published at https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/ https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/api_ref/ If you are using pywikibot for your own script, you can now package it as a pypi package and add a dependency in your setup.py on 'pywikibot'. The pywikibot package doesnt include i18n data, and it detects when it is not present. pywikibot core now uses JSON i18n messages, and these can be included in your own package. To enable your own JSON i18n messages, place them in an i18n subdirectory of your package, and your script needs to call pywikibot.i18n.set_messages_package('your_package_name.i18n') https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/api_ref/pywikibot.html#pywikibot.i18n.s… pywikibot does not require a user-config.py. It can be skipped by setting envvar PYWIKIBOT2_NO_USER_CONFIG. This can be done before calling python, or inside python but before importing pywikibot. e.g. Many thanks to all the developers of 'rewrite' over the years - it is nearly finished ;-) -- John Vandenberg