[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-1959384 ] welcome.py seems to ignore offset

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Bugs item #1959384, was opened at 2008-05-07 09:56
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Submitted By: DarkoNeko (darkoneko)
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Summary: welcome.py seems to ignore offset

Initial Comment:
Version used: 
5318 (latest available, since I did an update just before re-testing the bug)

Command used : 
/usr/bin/python ~/pywikipedia/welcome.py -nlog -limit:300 -offset:40 -random -time:300

Problem : 
the script ignores offset and welcomes users since the first one (verified using http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:log/newusers )

I thought the problem was "it ignores the 40 first lines, regardless of what action it is" but it's not the case :  the welcomed user (Yusukay) was 6th in user creation list, and 27th in the overall log.





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>Comment By: Filnik (filnik)
Date: 2008-05-08 13:08

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Yep, I've found this (strange, to say the truth) problem in another script
but I remembered just now that there's that problem also on welcome.py. By
the way, nicdumz has fixed it perfectly, I wouldn't have done it better :-)
Well done ;-)

Filnik

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Comment By: NicDumZ — Nicolas Dumazet (nicdumz)
Date: 2008-05-07 14:48

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Actually Mediawiki Special:Log has changed lately.

It's not using anymore a number offset, but a timestamp offset instead.

I fixed this on r5320, now you have to use a yyyymmddhhmmss timestamp as
an -offset argument : it will only welcome users OLDER than that time.
(Actually this time is server-dependant, it's GMT time for wikimedia
projects).

After thinking more about this issue, I also added a timeoffset:#
parameter : it will only welcome users older than # minutes.

(These argument names are confusing, offset, timeoffset, and time, but I
could not really find better names. If a developer has better names, just
go ahead, and *please add a deprecated warning for the old names* )

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