Hi Legoktm,
Legoktm schreef op 3-5-2015 om 21:35:
Hello,
A few people who work on some Python MediaWiki libraries started talking
on IRC today about how much duplication there is in the ecosystem,
resulting basically in wasted effort.
As long as we have bots as long as people start new ones
Hi Antoine,
Antoine Musso schreef op 23-10-2014 21:49:
Le 23/10/2014 14:46, Tyler Romeo a écrit :
Found this today: https://twitter.com/symfony_en/status/525222757567827968
It's probably a useless statistic, but I still found it amusing. Good to
know we still have less technical debt than
Hi guys,
I'm wondering how to add references that have multiple parts. Take for
example https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q76 (Barack Obama). The third
reference of date of birth has two parts:
* stated in - Integrated Authority File
* date retrieved - 9 April 2014
Currently a reference in our
Hi Ricordisamoa,
Ricordisamoa schreef op 7-8-2014 23:37:
py2.6 tests on Travis-CI are now allowed to fail, meaning that we are,
actually, supporting only 2.7+.
I renew my proposal to *drop* support for py2.6 at all.
Python2.6.x is still the default version on Redhat Linux. So if you use
it in
Hi Ricordi,
Ricordisamoa schreef op 14-6-2014 21:44:
Some tests fail only in py2.6:
https://travis-ci.org/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/jobs/27558463
(https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/139591/ is an attempted fix).
But I think we may instead drop support for py2.6 entirely, focusing
ourselves on
Hi Jan,
Jan Dudík schreef op 26-4-2014 21:38:
Or import with
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Underlying_lk/harvest_template_old.py
which allows to import dates (timedate) too
I filed several bugs to get this functionality to Pywikibot too.
* 64501 - Modify pywikibot.Timestamp to support
Hi Federico,
Federico Leva (Nemo) schreef op 25-4-2014 18:31:
Wikidata feels empty... even data on people is almost non-existing.
The Italian Wikipedia has the most complete persondata dataset in
Wikimedia world, ready for import. Legoktm's bot was almost ready to
parse the {{bio}} template,
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Kinzler schreef op 15-4-2014 19:16:
Today, Thiemo merged my patch introducing the ApiErrorReporter class:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/124323/. This should help us with
providing error reports from the API in a consistent manner; This way, we will
hopefully soon be able
Hi Ben,
Ben McIlwain schreef op 30-3-2014 6:21:
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Can someone give me commit access on Gerrit, or if there's some more
formal process I need to follow, can someone point me to that?
Anyone can submit changes to Gerrit. You just need a Wikitech
Hi Strainu,
Strainu schreef op 8-3-2014 18:46:
Hi Maarten,
Do note that a valid use case is to run pywikibot with a local
database dump (I haven't done this myself, but I know at least 1
person who does that), so the user needs to be able to configure this
field. The user variable seems like
Hi,
We currently have the MySQLPageGenerator to do database queries. It
uses site.dbName() to figure out the name of the site, but we don't seem
to have any system to figure out what database server to connect to. For
example:
* Dutch Wikipedia on Toolserver: connect nlwiki_p nlwiki-p.db
*
Hi Amir,
I plan to come. Maybe an additional topic: What to do to kill off the
old branch? That way we can focus on one software package instead of two.
Maarten
Amir Ladsgroup schreef op 6-3-2014 18:51:
Hello all,
Zürich Hackathon will be held in 9-11 May and It is a great
opportunity to
Alex Brollo schreef op 17-12-2013 7:32:
Is this a test for responcy speed of the list? :-)
Dunno, got multiple (empty) emails from him so I put him on moderation.
Maarten
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Hi guys,
I wondered if anyone managed to implement a recent changed linked
generator in Pywikibot. See for example
https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?namespace=tagfilter=target=Property%3AP197showlinkedto=1title=Special%3ARecentChangesLinked
. Would be quite useful. It looks like we don't
Hi Pyfisch,
Op 23-9-2013 19:43, Pyfisch schreef:
Hello,
at the moment Pywikibot has four mailing lists.
* pywikipedia-announce – Only two messages this year (one spam, the
other one to say sorry.) no last year
We could use this more, but we need to have better criteria what to post
there
*
Hi guys,
Op 20-9-2013 4:12, legoktm schreef:
Hi Jeroen,
Sorry about the late response...
Talked with Jeroen a bit about this on irc. Forgot to send an email here.
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Jeroen De Dauw
jeroended...@gmail.com mailto:jeroended...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
FYI, maybe something Pywiki developers should go too?
Origineel bericht
Onderwerp: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Wiki DevRoom at FOSDEM?
Datum: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:29:40 -0700
Van:Quim Gil q...@wikimedia.org
Antwoord-naar: Wikimedia developers wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org
FYI
Origineel bericht
Onderwerp: [Wikidata-tech] imminent breaking change to the API
Datum: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 13:43:05 +0200
Van:Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de
Antwoord-naar: Wikidata technical discussion
wikidata-t...@lists.wikimedia.org
Organisatie:
Hi Yury,
Op 2-6-2013 12:15, Yury Katkov schreef:
Good to know, fortunately I'm working for 3rd party wiki.
For Wiki Loves Monuments a lot of people are using
http://area23.brightbyte.de/csv2template.php . If you happen to make
something in python, please publish it, we still have many
Hi Jan,
Op 10-5-2013 9:38, Jan Dudík schreef:
It looks good,
but only works for [[links]], not for strings :-(
You're welcome to expand it to support more data types! :-)
Maarten
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Hi everyone,
Today I published and documented two scripts to mass add claims using
the rewrite branch:
* claimit.py: A script to mass add Wikidata claims to a lot of items
based on pages on Wikipedia [1]
* harvest_template.py: A script to mass add Wikidata claims based on
information
Hi everyone,
Wikimedia Nederland invites all developers to the Wikimedia Hackathon.
The Wikimedia Hackathon will be in 2013 from 24-26 May. The registration
is now open and also includes the possibility to apply for a travel,
accommodation or full scholarship. You can find the form at
Hi everyone,
As you might know phase 1 of Wikidata (interwiki links) is live at a lot
of Wikipedia's and soon to be turned on for all Wikipedia's. Phase 2 is
next, that's basically about infobox data. We are going to need a lot of
clever bots to fill Wikidata. To make that possible
to update the framework?
Maarten
On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl
mailto:maar...@mdammers.nl wrote:
Hi everyone,
As you might know phase 1 of Wikidata (interwiki links) is live at
a lot of Wikipedia's and soon to be turned on for all Wikipedia's
Hi Mario,
Op 21-2-2013 12:33, Mario Schubert schreef:
Hi Maarten,
thank you for your help.
I have set the self.ldapDomain = ('abc').
I am using the pywikipedia-rewrite at the moment. I have searched the
code, but ldapdomain is not used. Is the pywikipedia-rewrite able to
login to LDAP?
If
Hi Bináris,
Op 24-2-2013 13:18, Bináris schreef:
The presentation I held on Wikimania last summer
(http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Efficient_and_flexible_text_manipulation,_spelling_correction_and_page_collections_with_Pywikibot)
is now downloadable from Hungarian
Hi Mario,
Op 13-2-2013 14:02, Mario Schubert schreef:
Hello,
I am writing a bot to upload svn commited files to my MediaWiki. The
authentication is done by LDAP / Active Directory. For humans it
works. But with my bot it fails:
PHP Warning: ldap_start_tls(): Unable to start TLS: Can't
Hi everyone,
Wikimedia Nederland invites all developers to the Amsterdam Hackathon 2013.
The hackathon is an opportunity for all Wikimedia community developers
and sysadmins to come together, squash bugs and write great new features
tools. Unlike the previous years (2012, 2011, etc.) this
Hoi Merlijn,
Op 26-12-2012 13:28, Merlijn van Deen schreef:
Hello all,
As you might know, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has moved most
Mediawiki (MW)-related repositories from svn version control to git +
gerrit. As a consequence, the WMF also wants to stop running their svn
server - which is
Hi everyone,
Unlike previous years the big European Hackathon won't be in Berlin, but
in Amsterdam. We're aiming to do the hackathon in May 2013 with a
preference for the weekend of Saturday the 25th. To make sure this is a
good weekend I've set up a straw poll at
/Hackathon_2012
Maarten Dammers
Wikimedia Nederland
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Hi everyone,
At the moment we use Wikimedia infrastructure for most aspects of
Pywikipedia (documentation, version management, mailman etc), but not
for the bug tracker. Merlijn and I talked a bit about moving to
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org . It's not that we love bugzilla, but
that way
Hi Doug and Bináris,
Op 9-6-2012 18:31, Doug schreef:
I proposed this or Jira, which is used on toolserver, a few months back and got
some resistance.
For me Jira is out because I think that will stop at some point.
I still support anything other than what we have but note that wikimedia is
Hi Raimond,
Op 5-5-2012 10:46, Raimond Spekking schreef:
Am 04.05.2012 05:16, schrieb Erik Moeller:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-uploads
There's a new user preference chunked uploads for files over 1 MB
for Upload Wizard.
The intent of this feature is
Hi guys,
You probably know by now that the English Wikipedia will be closed
tomorrow [1]. Keep an eye on your bots if they're running on the English
Wikipedia (don't forget interwiki.py) because you might see some
unexpected behaviour or just crashes tomorrow.
Maarten
[1]
Hi Doug,
Op 30-12-2011 16:27, Doug schreef:
I chatted with one or two regulars on IRC about the idea and there
seemed to be some general support if someone else was willing to take
the lead. Is there general interest in taking the initial steps for a
migration to JIRA, setting up a project,
Hi Merlijn,
Op 22-12-2011 21:48, Merlijn van Deen schreef:
Last but not least, feel free to rewrite all bots to use the python
logging module, as it exists for long enough to be used (since python
2.3).
I think we can distinguish two kinds of output:
1. Output for user interaction (diff,
Hi guys,
The Commons messages are now a big mess. Everything gets imported from
other bots, duplication etc etc. I was thinking about just making a lib
(commons_lib.py?) to store the messages and moving the translations to
the i18n later on. Good plan? Or should it be in the family file?
Hi guys,
Fun and useful thing to implement: A isHidden() function for the
category object. Who feels like implementing this? You don't have to
actually get the fulltext of the category to see if it's hidden, you
should be able to get it like
Op 15-4-2011 15:48, John schreef:
There are people watching
About 297 (the number of members on this list).
Maarten
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Hi MJB,
Op 7-2-2011 15:22, MJB schreef:
Hello , Tim Starling told me that i can ask here to approve me for
commit access, i am working always with python and as i am working in
Persian community, my codes is about working on Persian Wikis you can
see a summary here
Hi Bináris,
Op 29-1-2011 15:05, Bináris schreef:
Have you also got an e-mail with subject SourceForge.net passwords
reset? Is that authentic?
Appears so, see
http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-net-global-password-reset/ .
Maybe a good moment to switch to a different bugtracker.
Hi guys,
Op 16-1-2011 12:20, Bináris schreef:
What does it mean didn’t work at all? What have you seen on the screen?
Are you sure those are really empty, and no space in them?
By the way, now I remember, that earlier I had problems, too, when I
wanted to substitute a newline (searching works
Hi Antoine,
Op 24-11-2010 19:27, Antoine Delarue schreef:
Hello,
when I launch commonscat.py I have this error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
File D:\Pywikipedia\commonscat.py, line 542, in module
main()
File D:\Pywikipedia\commonscat.py, line 517, in main
primaryCommonscat,
Hi everyone,
Currently translation of messages outputted to the wiki's is done in
source. This is quite tedious to maintain. A good step would be to move
translations to http://www.translatewiki.org so it is much easier to get
things translated. But how? We have several options.
1. Gettext:
Hi Lucas,
Op 25-9-2010 1:22, Lucas Nunes schreef:
Every time I get this message: WARNING: Could not open
'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your
connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... , is it possible to
change the time to retry connecting? about 10 seconds? I'm
Hi Bináris,
Op 24-8-2010 11:29, Bináris schreef:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia/
What is the difference, or which is to be regarded as more up-do-date?
Both are just views of
Op 31-7-2010 17:12, Lewis Cawte schreef:
On 31/07/10 16:03, Manuelt15 Wiki wrote:
Hi, I wanted to notice you that the new Python 2.7 has been released,
and I was wondering.. does Pywikipedia will work properly with it?
Hm, I'm not sure.. I haven't got python 2.7 on my Ubuntu yet.. I'm
Op 12-5-2010 14:40, Maarten Dammers schreef:
Op 4-5-2010 0:08, Merlijn van Deen schreef:
This e-mail was sent by Maarten to the pywikipedia-svn mailing list.
Sorry about that. Probably pressed the wrong reply button.
Looks like the behavior was changed. Categories() should only return
and not categories transcluded
by templates. This is not the way how you should change a library.
Please change api=True to api=False in the trunk otherwise a lot of bots
will break.
Maarten
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Hi Tim,
Op 12-5-2010 11:09, Tim Starling schreef:
knip
* Amir Sarabadani (amir): pywikipediabot
Aka Ladsgroup? How come?
I'm wondering because my experience in the past with him wasn't that
good. He tried to run bots on Commons and failed. Very hard to
communicate with him.
I can only
Hi Russell,
Russell Blau schreef:
I am at a point where it would be helpful to have some feedback from other
Pywikipedia users about the future of the rewrite branch. As those who
watch the SVN commits know, I have not had as much time to work on this
lately, and have to prioritize what
Hi everyone,
Could anyone tell me why FancyURLopener was replaced by this?
MyURLopener = urllib2.build_opener(U2RedirectHandler)
MyURLopener.add_handler(proxyHandler)
MyURLopener.add_handler(proxyAuthHandler)
MyURLopener.add_handler(authhandler)
MyURLopener.addheaders = [('User-agent',
Hi everyone,
I'm getting so freaking tired of these untested sloppy commits which
keep breaking the bots.
ale...@svn.wikimedia.org schreef:
Revision: 7591
Author: alexsh
Date: 2009-11-04 13:22:17 + (Wed, 04 Nov 2009)
Log Message:
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* site().getUrl(): change all HTTP
Hi guys,
I'm playing around with the new upload api (it's enabled at
http://test.wikipedia.org/).
Now I'm wondering what the best way would be to implement it in the
rewrite branch because uploading goes down to the core.
Three ways of uploading are possible: file, url and chunks
1. File:
Hi people,
Pt wikipedia decided to get a local version of #redirect.
Please update your bots to at least r7390 to prevent a mess (and a block).
Maarten
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Jan Dudík schreef:
Comment By: siebrand (siebrand)
Date: 2009-10-02 11:18
Message:
r7345. Please attach a proper diff next time, and not a whole file.
But how to make proper diff?
svn diff filename
or with tortoise svn use create patch
Maarten
JAn Dudík
Hi everyone,
I same to be able to transfer batches of images without a crash.
Installation of Flickrapi and PIL seems to be difficult for users
(process described at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Tools/Flickrripper).
Any suggestions on how to improve this?
Maarten
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
Hi guys,
Currently this list is flooded with automated messages from Sourceforge
and svn commits.
I propose to split up the list so it's workable again.
-pywikipeida-l - discussion by humans
-pywikipedia-svn - svn commits
-pywikipedia-bugs - automated bug mails (now by sourceforge maybe in the
Hi Cyde,
Cyde Weys schreef:
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wrong, please contact me and I'll have a look. Changing the behavior of
the generator factory required touching every bot that used it, and I'm
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