[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Feature Requests-2531112 ] interwiki.py - allow to combine -new with -namespace

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Feature Requests item #2531112, was opened at 2009-01-23 13:51
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>Category: interwiki
Group: None
>Status: Pending
Priority: 6
Private: No
Submitted By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
>Assigned to: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Summary: interwiki.py - allow to combine -new with -namespace

Initial Comment:
Since the list of new pages supports selection of name spaces now, the api does it anyways, please allow interwiki.py the same.

While I believe, a page generator of new pages should be flexible enough to return pages of all name spaces upon 1 request, I suggest not to use this functionallity in interwiki.py for securing against unwanted interwikilinking of talk pages, and creating (usually wrong) interwiki links of template pages (where <noinclude> wold be usually required but is not added automatically, only left in place and used, if it is aready there)



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>Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2009-01-29 22:39

Message:
Since Special:NewPages can either select a single namespace, or all
namespaces,
selecting mutiple namespaces needs to be implemented via filtering after
reading
the llist of "all namespaces". Securing the page count with -new: thus
needs a bit
redoing, when mutiple namespaces have been selected.

I am not going to do that now, but document that, -new:N is an upper limit
for the
actual page count when multiple namespaces are wanted, else (with 1
namespace,
or all namespaces) everything remains as it was.

For future enhancement I suggest to extend the -new paramater by another
figure like such: -new:from:to
-new:to:from
both from, and to, being entry numbers in the list
(since from<=to, order is arbitrary, and current use remains valid)

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