PyWikipediabot is a bot used for several functions in Wikipedia. Most famous is probably the bot for working on Interwiki links. See http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywikipediabot/. This is a report of changes and additions to the bot in the past week.
* imagetransfer.py is a new bot. Given a Wikipedia page, it searches through interwiki links for images, and on request of the user, uploads them to the user's home Wikipedia. It's still in development, but it seems the serious bugs have gone. It was created by Andre Engels, with help from Head, and based on an existing bot by Rob Hooft. * copy_table.py takes a table from one Wikipedia and puts it in another, translating 'on the fly'. Programmed by head. It currently can translate taxoboxes between English, French, German and Dutch, and German city data from German to English and Dutch * If the interwiki-bot is given a hint without a page title, the title of the original page is taken to be the hint. * The hints 'main' and 'more' of the interwiki-bot have been renamed to '10' and '20', and '30' has been added; each gives approximately that number of the largest languages. Also the hint cyril: (for all languages in Cyrillic writing) has been added.
Current discussion: We are looking for ways to improve the handling of problems in interwiki.py where more than one link is found to one language.
Andre Engels