Hallo all,
as you might know, the Flagged Revisions extension has recently been enabled on the German Wikipedia. A minor change to the PyWikipediaBot was required so that bots work properly with that extension. I have done this change and committed it to SVN as revision 5330. [1]
If you run a bot that edits pages on de: (e. g. an interwiki bot), this update is mandatory. Please update immediately, otherwise your bot might be in danger of getting blocked because it increases the workload for users who are reviewing articles.
If you are unable to update via SVN, please stop your bot and wait until revision 5330 or higher is available on http://tools.wikimedia.de/~valhallasw/pywiki/ .
Thank you
Daniel
[1] diff: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/wikipedia.py?r...
On 5/7/08, Daniel Herding DHerding@gmx.de wrote:
Hallo all,
as you might know, the Flagged Revisions extension has recently been enabled on the German Wikipedia. A minor change to the PyWikipediaBot was required so that bots work properly with that extension. I have done this change and committed it to SVN as revision 5330. [1]
For those of us who aren't using PyWikipediaBot and who aren't familiar with the structure of its code, what is the nature of the change?
Am Donnerstag 08 Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Wagner:
On 5/7/08, Daniel Herding DHerding@gmx.de wrote:
as you might know, the Flagged Revisions extension has recently been enabled on the German Wikipedia. A minor change to the PyWikipediaBot was required so that bots work properly with that extension. I have done this change and committed it to SVN as revision 5330.
For those of us who aren't using PyWikipediaBot and who aren't familiar with the structure of its code, what is the nature of the change?
In the HTML of the edit page, there is a new hidden form element, called baseRevId, for example:
<input name="baseRevId" type="hidden" value="45774514" />
You can also retrieve this revision ID from the XML that is returned by [[Special:Export]].
When you post a page, you should include this revision ID in your POST request.
When your bot account has a bot flag or an editor flag ("Sichter-Flag" in German), or both, and it edits a page which has been recently reviewed, the resulting page will then automatically be marked as reviewed as well. This makes life easier for people who patrol recent changes etc., as they don't have to review bot changes.
Cheers
Daniel
Hallo all,
there is another important update for PyWikipediaBot, related to the one described in my last mail. There was a bug in the XML reader of PyWikipediaBot, other bot softwares are not affected.
The problem was that indentation whitespace was not properly ignored in the XML reader. On the German Wikipedia, the bot therefore didn't send "baseRevId=123456", but "baseRevId=123456\n ".
The current version of the Flagged Revs extension seems to be more strict than before, so the superfluous whitespace is now a problem, as auto-reviewing no longer works. I have just fixed that bug.
If you're running a bot that does changes on dewiki, please update to revision 5387 via SVN. An up-to-date nightly build will be available at about 20:00 UTC at http://tools.wikimedia.de/~valhallasw/pywiki/ .
Cheers
Daniel
Am Donnerstag 08 Mai 2008 schrieb Daniel Herding:
Am Donnerstag 08 Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Wagner:
On 5/7/08, Daniel Herding DHerding@gmx.de wrote:
as you might know, the Flagged Revisions extension has recently been enabled on the German Wikipedia. A minor change to the PyWikipediaBot was required so that bots work properly with that extension. I have done this change and committed it to SVN as revision 5330.
For those of us who aren't using PyWikipediaBot and who aren't familiar with the structure of its code, what is the nature of the change?
In the HTML of the edit page, there is a new hidden form element, called baseRevId, for example:
<input name="baseRevId" type="hidden" value="45774514" />
You can also retrieve this revision ID from the XML that is returned by [[Special:Export]].
When you post a page, you should include this revision ID in your POST request.
When your bot account has a bot flag or an editor flag ("Sichter-Flag" in German), or both, and it edits a page which has been recently reviewed, the resulting page will then automatically be marked as reviewed as well. This makes life easier for people who patrol recent changes etc., as they don't have to review bot changes.
Cheers
Daniel
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