Hello, I don't know whether my mail written yesterday reached the
mailinglist, so again:
here's the Tetum (tet) translation:
"robot" - bot
"Adding" - tau tan
"Removing" - hasai
"Modifying" - filak
--MF-Warburg
Hello,
I have been having a problem for about two weeks now operating my bots on
Wikimedia sites (archive bot on dewiki and others, recategorization bot on
dewiki). They keep losing session information without any obvious cause in
the middle of a bot run. Until now, the bot would open special:userlogin at
the start of a run, keep the cookie it gets and send it with each edit. For
some reason, this doesn't seem to always work anymore. A good example of
what happens can be shown here:
1.) logged on:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge&dir=prev&of…
2.) suddenly logged off:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge&dir=prev&of…
There are no IP changes on my side and a delay of no more than 20 seconds
between the edit with and without login information. Is there something I
should do differently so this doesn't happen anymore? I don't use
pywikipediabot but a framework I created myself. The bot code hasn't changed
and had worked until recently. Any idea?
Regards,
Sebastian
Hi,
I am a new user of the interwiki.py program in the pywikipedia package,
which I use to set and correct interlanguage links at 6 Wikipedias.
I have some issues (possible bugs and enhancement proposals) which I
would like to report and discus. But I am unsure of which forum to use:
* wikibots-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org (this list), or
* pywikipediabot-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net, or
* the tracker system at sourceforge.net
Could someone please explain what is best discussed where? And also, do
you prefer that I send all my issues in one e-mail, or should I send
several?
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Byrial
Dear all,
I am planning to run interwiki.py (from pywikipedia) on the Volapük wikipedia, but I don't have a place in a server that I could use to store the resulting warnfiles so that other interwiki.py users could have access to them. What should I do? Is there some place somewhere in wikipedia where I could upload the files and then post their address to others? Or is there a mailing list (perhaps this one?) that I could send the (gzipped) warnfiles to?
Another question: I'm having problems running little bots on the Volapük wikipedia. For some reason, the python command: page.get() (to get the text of the page stored in the variable 'page') doesn't work from my GUI (I'm using IDLE). If I put text -- using page.put() -- it works fine; but if I want to retrieve the text I have just uploaded with page.put(), then for some strange reason page.get() won't do it -- I just get a longish error message that apparently says there is no such page. Would anyone be able to help me? Or do you know who I can ask for help, in case this is not the right place?
Smeira
I am sometimes asked to request for bot status for my bot. I find this
strange. Bot status is there for the normal users of the wiki, not for
the bot operator. If you want my bot to have bot status, then you
request it. I'd be happy to help you in that, but why should I request
something just because someone else wants it?
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
Two orthographies have been fought over at the Belarussian Wikipedia,
with the effect now being that the pages that used to be at
be.wikipedia.org now are at be-x-old.wikipedia.org, and a new
Wikipedia has been started at be.wikipedia.org.
To deal with this with the bot, apart from adding the language
be-x-old I have made the following changes to the interwiki.py bot:
1. If an interwiki to be: is found, the bot will also check the page
in the same title on be-x-old.
2. If an interwiki to be-x-old: exists or is added, removing a link to
be: is not considered a 'controversial' edit, and thus will be done
without the need of using -force or explicitly agreeing, and even in
autonomous mode.
I do find there is a problem trying to login my bot on
http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org; I hope that one of the MediaWiki
developers can help me there.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
The Belorussian Wikipedia has for the largest part been moved to
http://be-x-old.wikipedia.org, with new (but smaller) content on
http://be.wikipedia.org. As far as I know, it is not yet possible to have
interwiki links to [[be-x-old:]] (if there is, I would like to hear it -
there are developers on this list, right?). I would like to ask everyone to
attempt to be cautious in removing interwiki links to non-existing pages on
be: for the time being.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
Warning to all who are about to update and do not so automatically from CVS:
If you download wikipedia.py 1.829 (or newer), you also MUST download
userinterfaces/terminal_interface.py 1.32 (or newer). Older versions of
terminal_interface.py will cause the bot to crash on almost everything.
--
Andre Engels, andreengels(a)gmail.com
ICQ: 6260644 -- Skype: a_engels
There is probably some bug (but i don't know, if it isn't my fault),
because if i give to command line
interwiki.py -cat:category -force -start:f -subcat
it asks me for name of category and then starts from first page (e. g.
[[1]]) instead of [[F]]. When i change position of parameters, sometimes
it start from allpages.
When i exclude -start:xxx, it asks me for name of category too.
JAn
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