On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Legoktm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/18/2016 02:49 PM, billinghurst wrote: >> I have read the WM messaging about the changes that are taking place in >> WM 1.27.0/11 with regards to authentication, though not understanding >> what that will mean for Pywikibot. Would SKS please cover that >> information gap. Thx. > > Pywikibot supports using OAuth to authenticate. For Wikimedia sites, > it's recommended that you switch to that, and there's documentation[1] > on how to do so. > > [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth
This will mean Pywikibot 2.0 (which uses httplib2) will be undesirable for Wikimedia use soon. We will need to finalise the 2.0 release, and then start work on the 3.0 release which uses requests and supports OAuth. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ pywikibot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot
