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
Voor wie het nog niet wist;
Oscar, ja, onze Oscar, is "Board member" van de Wikimedia Foundation
geworden.
Proficiat Oscar.
Kate en Jan-Bart van Kennisnet ook.
Groet,
Walter
PS: het zijn steward verkiezingen en Effe doet ook mee. Niet dat hij ze
nodig heeft maar ik weet uit persoonlijke ervaring dat het zeer leuk is
om enorm veel stemmen te krijgen. (de anderen verdienen ook aandacht
natuurlijk)
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/elections_2006-2#Effe_iets_anders
-------- Originele bericht --------
Onderwerp: Welcome to our three new board members
Datum: Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:51:04 +0100
Van: florencedevouard <anthere-/LvEknQFLaBAfugRpC6u6w(a)public.gmane.org>
Antwoord-naar: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
<foundation-l-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org>
Nieuwsgroepen: gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation
Dear Community,
A few days ago, I wrote you a "short" email to give you feedback on the
last board meeting, which occured in Florida. Reference:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2006-December/011869.html
As I promised, we welcome today 2 new board members, whom most of you
already know, Mindspillage and Oscar (also known irl as Kat Walsh (us
citizen, lady), Oscar van Dillen (dutch citizen, gentleman). Welcome to
you both.
Tim Shell has chosen to resign from the board, effective 15th of
december. At this date, he will be replaced by Jan-Bart de Vreede.
I would like first to give a special thank you to Tim Shell, whom I did
not know at all 2 years ago, and whom I learned to appreciate. Tim has
seen the birth of Wikipedia, be part of the first 4 years of life of the
Foundation, and I hope he will keep an oldbie eye on it. Thank you Tim,
and prosit (tchin, santé etc...).
Let me introduce you Jan-Bart. We wanted to choose a more external guy,
who could have another view on
our whole organisation. You may consider him external, since he hardly
has any edits :-) , was not member of any of the internal cabal mailing
lists... so, it is our first attempt to introduce the "outside" in here.
At the same time, he is not a stranger. Many of us already met him, he
was at the two wikimania. And several of us have been talking with him
quite a bit in the past. Most recently, he got involved in the ED search
committee (so, was unofficially already acting as an advisory board
member). His name came as an evidence to us.
He is a young man of 36 (which is still younger than I). Married, two
kids. Dutch (which means we have two dutch guys on the board...). He
studied Business Administration at the Rotterdam School of Management
(which may definitly be an asset in our organisation). He works for
Kennisnet Foundation, THE dutch organisation for ICT use in Education.
Jan-Bart put a short bio about him on meta:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jan-Bart
So... I hope it is all good news for everyone. I am really glad we make
that step. Welcome Kat, Oscar and Jan-Bart. And thank you Tim.
Ref: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_expansion
Ant
aka Florence Devouard
ChairChick of Wikimedia Foundation
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