[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-2485201 ] Wikia: wikia-credits footer silently added to edits

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Bugs item #2485201, was opened at 2009-01-04 11:05
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Category: General
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Postponed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Murph (pauljmurph)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Wikia:  wikia-credits footer silently added to edits

Initial Comment:
Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r6219, Jan 03 2009, 14:34:49)
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17) 
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)]

Wikia have modified MediaWiki to add a <div id="wikia-credits">...</div> footer to pages.  Although this is a Wikia-specific change, pywikipediabot should really ignore it.  It would be easy for a new user to inadvertantly add this footer to the page source on a large scale without realising it.  Ideally, Wikia would strip the footer again on upload, but they don't do that at present.

Patch attached.

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>Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-01-27 09:42

Message:
pywikipediabot still largely trusts on screen scraping to get its
information. All deviations in the parser behaviour from standard may lead
to issues. Pywikipediabot is being rewritten to use the API in almost all
use cases to prevent or at least largely reduce these issues. Set to
'closed/postponed'

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