There have been large changes in the Python Wikipediabot Framework recently. Below I will sum up the most important changes, but before doing so, I want to warn you that the user-config.py has to be changed before using a recent (less than about one week old) version of the bot. It has been changed to enable the editing of multiple languages with the interwiki bot.

Removed has to be the line: username = 'MyBot' And it is to be replaced with lines: usernames['family']['xx'] = 'MyBot'

for each project and language where your bot has a login. 'family' will be 'wikipedia' for most of you; the others will probably know what it should be in their case.

A recent snapshot can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot/.

The most important changes of approximately the last month:

== General == * The option '-help' has been added to many bots, giving their documentation. This includes a hint of what they do and a list of their options. * The bot checks watchlists, so that if something is on the watchlist, it will not be automatically removed upon editing. They are still checked only once a month, however. * If the bot is not logged in, it tries to log in before saving a page.

== Configuration (config.py) == * 'username' changed to 'usernames' (see above) * new configuration parameter ring_bell: Can be set to False to let the bots not give any audible signs (bell) * new configuration parameter userinterface: default value 'terminal', the alternative 'tkinter' (more GUI-like interface) is not ready yet.

== category.py == * Better exception handling for category.py all

== imagetransfer.py == * Can now be used to directly upload to commons * Can now be used to upload to another wiki rather than commons

== interwiki.py == * Will edit all languages the bot is logged in at, not just the one you are working in * Will notice links between disambiguation pages and non-disambiguation pages, and prompt the user upon meeting them (unless autonomous) * New option -select always lets the user say yes/no to each specific page found * Handles the scanwiki/interwiki from nn:wikipedia correctly now * Option -vertfile produces a list of interwiki links

== login.py == * New option '-all' to login on all wikis from the user-config.py (but checks first)

== makecat.py == * If the page is already in a (direct) parent category of the category being added, the parent is removed (there is however currently a bug in finding parent categories, will be corrected)

== replace.py == * Does now accept the -start option

== touch.py == * Replaces the old bot touchall.py. Apart from the old functionality to 'touch' all pages in a wiki (starting at a given page, this bot can also be used on all pages in a category, all pages linked from a wiki page, all pages linking to a given page, a list in a textfile or on a single page.

== weblinkchecker.py == * Various bugfixes and minor improvements

== Localization == * Languages ff:,fur:,bm: added, sh: re-added * Names for namespaces added

== Private bots == People who have their own bots may notice various changes that might make them unable to use them in combination with new releases. The latest important change is that Page.linkname() has been renamed to Page.title() (for those who are used to yet older versions: The Page class is a renaming of the PageLink class).