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Petr Bena

27 Apr 2014 27 Apr '14

10:57 a.m.

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

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Petr Bena

27 Apr 27 Apr

11 a.m.

it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

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Petr Bena

11:06 a.m.

I noted you said: There are some issues with the IRC front-end (irc3). <ref>http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikibugs/</ref> In case you didn't want to bother yourself with implementing the IRC protocol, you can use the wm-bot's irc-relay plugin https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wm-bot#Relay_of_messages_from_scripts_and_o… this thing allows any script / program running anywhere on wikimedia-labs to deliver irc messages to any channel using wm-bot by sending very simple TCP / UDP packets directly to wm-bot. I don't expect you would like to use it, but it would potentially save you some work, given that making reliable bot that is able to autorejoin / reconnect on netsplits that happen often, isn't that easy. On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well > to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. > Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it > join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

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Alex Monk

11:09 a.m.

It already is, see https://github.com/valhallasw/pywikibugs On 27 April 2014 10:00, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

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Petr Bena

12:44 p.m.

channels array should be loaded from some configuration file instead of being hard coded, and it would be cool if it could be modified runtime, using irc commands On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Alex Monk <krenair(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It already is, see https://github.com/valhallasw/pywikibugs On 27 April 2014 10:00, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

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Alex Monk

12:49 p.m.

Have you filed an issue on Github? On 27 April 2014 11:44, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

channels array should be loaded from some configuration file instead of being hard coded, and it would be cool if it could be modified runtime, using irc commands On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Alex Monk <krenair(a)gmail.com> wrote:

It already is, see https://github.com/valhallasw/pywikibugs On 27 April 2014 10:00, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

it would be also cool if source code was somewhere readable by public On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

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MZMcBride

5:11 p.m.

Petr Bena wrote:

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

While I know that you're acting in good faith, I feel that some portion of your mailing list inquiries could be made moot by simply searching around a bit. For example, it probably isn't too difficult to find this wikitech-l thread titled "New wikibugs bot" from about a week ago: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-April/076140.html>. This isn't to say that wikibugs couldn't have better documentation, both on-wiki and built in. Code patches and wiki edits are welcome. :-) MZMcBride

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Petr Bena

5:28 p.m.

I would search for the code if the project page on tool labs (http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikibugs/) clearly didn't say "The source is not yet in git, but will be once I've cleaned up passwords et al. from the code." So I assumed it isn't in any repository so far, and more than asking where the code is, I said it would be nice to have it somewhere. Regarding documentation: even the e-mail you linked here doesn't provide any, so, yes I admit I didn't search for it, but if I did, I would still had the same question :P On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:

Petr Bena wrote:

There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation. Where can it be found? How is the bot controlled? How do I make it join some channel and subscribe to a feed?

While I know that you're acting in good faith, I feel that some portion of your mailing list inquiries could be made moot by simply searching around a bit. For example, it probably isn't too difficult to find this wikitech-l thread titled "New wikibugs bot" from about a week ago: <http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2014-April/076140.html>. This isn't to say that wikibugs couldn't have better documentation, both on-wiki and built in. Code patches and wiki edits are welcome. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l

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Merlijn van Deen

8:44 p.m.

Petr Bena wrote: >There is a new bot for wikibugs but it doesn't seem to reply very well >to basic CTCP messages and provides no link to its documentation.

CTCP VERSION was indeed broken (apparently a seperate plugin...), but it works now. On 27 April 2014 17:28, Petr Bena <benapetr(a)gmail.com> wrote:

I would search for the code if the project page on tool labs (http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikibugs/) clearly didn't say "The source is not yet in git, but will be once I've cleaned up passwords et al. from the code."

Right, that was a quick initial note. I should have removed it, and have done that now -- it now forwards to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikibugs. Otherwise, the basic documentation is in the README.md on github: https://github.com/valhallasw/pywikibugs/blob/master/README.md If you feel anything is missing from the documentation, please update the wiki page, send a pull request or send me a message. Thanks! Merlijn

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