[Pywikipedia-l] PLEASE READ: rewrite branch needs testing

[Russell Blau]

The following bots have now been ported to the rewrite framework:

category.py
editarticle.py
replace.py
solve_disambiguation.py
touch.py

These scripts need testing!  Please report any bugs on the sourceforge.net 
tracker, using the "Rewrite" category.  [One known issue:  "category.py 
move" won't work without the -inplace option.]

You can get the rewrite branch with your favorite SVN client:

svn checkout 
svn+ssh://[yournamehere]@svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/branches/rewrite

You will need to make a copy of your existing user-config.py file and store 
it in a new location.  For Windows, this is "C:\Documents and 
Settings\[yournamehere]\Application Data\pywikibot" -- for Unix-like 
systems, it is "~/.pywikibot"  (if you want to put it somewhere
else, you can set the environment variable PYWIKIBOT2_DIR to the name of the 
directory containing your user-config.py, but I don't recommend trying to 
use the same directory you keep your existing pywikipedia files in).

The bots themselves can be found in the pywikibot/scripts subdirectory under 
the directory to which you checked out the framework.  However, if you add 
this directory to your PYTHONPATH, you should be able to run the scripts 
from any directory.

For those who aren't aware, the rewrite branch is a new pywikipedia 
framework that is designed to be (mostly) backwards-compatible with existing 
scripts, but which uses the MediaWiki API (instead of screen-scraping) for 
all access to wiki contents and metadata.  The idea is to obsolete the 
existing framework and replace it with this branch as soon as testing is 
complete and all major bots have been ported.

Oh, and by the way, patches and other contributions besides bug reports are 
also welcome!

Russ