[Pywikipedia-l] Pywikipedia plans

[Maarten Dammers]

Hi guys,

This weekend I went to the dev meeting in Berlin. Spoke to a number of 
people and now I have some things i want to work on:

*Mailing lists : Already did a post about that a while ago (you probably 
missed that one). Bug filed at 
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18388
*I18n : I talked to Siebrand about moving translations to translatewiki 
and importing these into pywikipedia. This would give us an easy way to 
get a lot of our messages translated.
*User messages: Currently when you run a bot you'll get flooded with a 
lot of messages. I would like to introduce message levels (like in 
syslog) to be able to control this. From the rfc:
           0       Emergency: system is unusable
           1       Alert: action must be taken immediately
           2       Critical: critical conditions
           3       Error: error conditions
           4       Warning: warning conditions
           5       Notice: normal but significant condition
           6       Informational: informational messages
           7       Debug: debug-level messages

*Global botflag: Currently pywikipedia doesn't seem to understand global 
flags.
*Api: We should probably keep in touch with the api people. For example 
implementing a namespace filter on the api side shouldn't be to 
difficult. Fancy pagegenerators could probably be implemented in the api 
too.

Maarten