Wikibots-l December 2006

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crashes
by Dan Collins 10 Dec '06

10 Dec '06

I have been running the interwiki.py and found an error, details at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Interwiki.py#crashing_bug When running without -hint:10, there is no problem. Ideas? -- ST47 Editor, en.wikipedia

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New in the Pywikipediabot framework
by Andre Engels 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

There is a new version available for download of the Python Wikipediabot framework. I would advise most people using the framework on Wikimedia wikis (who does not get it through CVS) to update, because the old version will not be able to read the allpages special page correctly. Also, those who use it on a Windows system are advised to download version 2.5 of Python (if they are still using an older version), because colours are now working for Windows, but only under Python 2.5. Downloading 2.5 is also advised for anyone (on any system) who wants to use xml dumps with the bot. To save space, the current distribution does not include the wordlists, because they are very large files. Those who want to use spellcheck.pyshould download them from http://pywikipediabot.cvs.sourceforge.net/pywikipediabot/pywikipedia/spelli…. Wordlists exist for Dutch and English; wordlists in other languages are still welcome. Recent changes in the bot (from the last month, only the most important are given: ==new bots== * commonslink.py. This searches for a page with the same name in commons, and links to it. Currently only working on English and Portuguese Wikipedias * delete.py. Deletes a group of pages. ==important bugfixes== * Because of some changes in the wikimedia code, the bot wasn't able to read [[Special:Allpages]] any more. * Bot messed up categories or interwikis within <noinclude> tags (the > of the noinclude was moved to after the categories/interwikis) ==user interface== * More bots use colour highlighting * Colours can now be used on Windows systems as well. This requires Python 2.5. * Transliterated text is now coloured yellow; the stars to denote that something has been transliterated are only used when using a Windows version that does not support colours. ==interwiki== * New option -subcat: When pages are found using -cat, pages from subcategories are included as well. ==weblinkchecker== * Does not hang on getting hit by the spamfilter * Gives less false positives ==various== * cosmetic_changes.py removes misplaced and extraneous spaces in wiki-linking syntax ==aids for bot writers== * in pagegenerators there is now PrefixingPageGenerator, yielding all pages of which the title starts with a certain text. -- Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels

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Advise for Windows Pywikipediabot users
by Andre Engels 08 Dec '06

08 Dec '06

Users who use Pywikipediabot under Windows are advised to download the new version of Python, version 2.5. Reason for this is that Daniel recently made the usage of colours in the interface work under windows as well, but this only works with Python 2.5, not with older versions. P.S.: I also found that I find his default colour worse than Windows'. If you agree with me, you can set it back by putting: defaultcolor = 7 in your user-config.py -- Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels

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Wikibots-l December 2006