Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Deprecation of compat

2014-06-01 Thread Andre Engels
To me, the actual functionality of core is zero. I have tried to install it three or four times, and failed every time. Just to check again, I did another attempt. First, trying to download and run compat: download compat try to run answer a number of questions that auto-create a user-config.py re

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] What is rcsort.py?

2013-11-01 Thread Andre Engels
It's an old script of mine; it shows the recent changes page ordered by user instead of by time. André On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Pyfisch wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently cleaning up Manual:Pywikibot/Scripts and I am wondering > about the rcsort.py script, which is in the IRC scripts s

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Browser review is inserting "wiki/" into page address

2013-07-09 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:36 AM, William H. Magill wrote: > > On Jul 9, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Andre Engels wrote: > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Andre Engels > wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:07 AM, William H. Magill > wrote: >

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Browser review is inserting "wiki/" into page address

2013-07-09 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Andre Engels wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:07 AM, William H. Magill wrote: > >> I'm working on a non wikipedia mediawiki -- lotrowiki.com. >> >> Attempting to use the browser function on replace (b) yields a 404 >> becaus

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Browser review is inserting "wiki/" into page address

2013-07-09 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 4:07 AM, William H. Magill wrote: > I'm working on a non wikipedia mediawiki -- lotrowiki.com. > > Attempting to use the browser function on replace (b) yields a 404 > because it is looking for "lotro-wiki.com/wiki/ > > Not being a Python programmer, so far I have not been

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Pywikipedia-svn] SVN: [10043] trunk/pywikipedia/userinterfaces

2012-03-26 Thread Andre Engels
n Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > On 26 March 2012 11:07, Bináris wrote: >> Not really. :-((( This was the first I have tried. The attached screenshot >> shows the yesterday and the today state each under other (as the window was >> left open for night fortunately). Euro

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] problem

2012-02-15 Thread Andre Engels
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Bináris wrote: > This is a problem in manual botwork. 20+13 minutes when I can neither > continue nor close the window or switch off my computer or anything... And I > am afraid some edits are simply lost. I guess there should be variation in replag waiting betwe

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] SOPA tomorrow

2012-01-18 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > 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 jus

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] SOPA tomorrow

2012-01-17 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Maarten Dammers wrote: > 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 jus

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] account_global = False

2012-01-02 Thread Andre Engels
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Nickanc Wikipedia wrote: > I saw that inside config.py there are these lines: > > # This is currently not used anywhere: > account_global = False > > I don't know what this means technically, but by its name one may > guess it means "not to login globally". But, sin

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Noisy interwiki.py

2012-01-02 Thread Andre Engels
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Merlijn van Deen wrote: > 2011/12/24 Tuszynski, Jaroslaw W. > >> Running interwiki.py in the background produces infrequent but steady >> stream of beeps, which I can’t figure out how to turn off. It seems like >> occasionally when program tries to display am non E

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

2011-12-28 Thread Andre Engels
Sending a Cc: to wikitech-l, hoping that someone knows something about it there. What is the actual situation with respect to this extension? Who decides whether and when it will be put into effect on Wikipedia? André Engels On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Tisza Gergo wrote: > Andre Eng

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

2011-12-26 Thread Andre Engels
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Bináris wrote: > > 2011/12/26 Andre Engels >> >> >> A more far-reaching and better solution has already been discussed for >> years, namely porting the interwikis to a separate (wiki) site, > > That means the renewal of the

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

2011-12-26 Thread Andre Engels
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Bináris wrote: > I think this is a week point of our system. Work of Wikipedia is based on > the approach that all the mistakes are easier to correct than to prevent. A > vandal may "work" on several pages to be vandalized, and I can revert them > in a few second

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

2011-12-26 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Bináris wrote: > Sorry, I am  afraid, there is a misunderstanding. I never run onterwiki as a > bot owner, there is no point in being the 1001st to do so, if I can do > unique bot tasks with more benefit. :-) > > I ask this as a user. If one wrong iw gets into 25 g

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Removing wrong iw

2011-12-25 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Bináris wrote: > I remember there was some trick to tell the interwiki bots to remove the iw > from other wikis instead of putting it back all the time, but what was that? I'm not sure what exactly you mean, but one possibility in that direction is "-ignore:xx:yyy

[Pywikipedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] serious interwiki.py issues on MW 1.18 wikis

2011-09-30 Thread Andre Engels
dré Engels -- Forwarded message ------ From: Andre Engels Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:13 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] serious interwiki.py issues on MW 1.18 wikis To: Wikimedia developers On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ariel T. Glenn wrote: > Out of curiosity... If the new revisi

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Wikitech-l] serious interwiki.py issues on MW 1.18 wikis

2011-09-30 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Max Semenik wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Andre Engels >wrote: > > > > > The interwiki links are retrieved from page content. The page content has > > been received through a call to Special:Export. > > > >

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Category.py misbehaviour

2011-07-16 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Bináris wrote: > I want to empty a category with category.py remove. I have just installed > the latest Pywiki from nightlies and I have cosmetic changes switched off. > Why does it punish me like this? > > http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abraham_Lincoln

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] User talk page not recognized by bot

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Engels
2011/5/22 Bináris : > user vita is an outdated but well-working name for user talk namespace in > Hungarian Wikipedia. If I write [[user vita:Bináris]], it takes me directly > to my talk page (which is now called Szerkesztővita:Bináris). > But for the code > s = u'user vita:Bináris' > p = pywikibo

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Encoding in HTML source

2011-03-07 Thread Andre Engels
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Bináris wrote: > Hi, > > when I download a page in HTML, which contains titles of articles, these > titles are something like urlencode()-ed, but not quite; characters like > "(", ")", "!", ",", ":" appear without encoding. > > For example: > href="/w/index.php?tit

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] SVN help

2011-03-04 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Bináris wrote: > Hi, > > I have just installed TortoiseSVN on my machine, and I am trying to > understand it from documentation. > I need it for > -- restoring the older versions of my misdeveloped programs (after some sad > experiences) > -- making diffs/patches to

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] replace.py -silent -- please comment

2011-03-03 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Bináris wrote: > Errata: pywikibot.showdiff is the main agent to slow down the program. I am > not sure if pywikibot.output is also so guilty. Now I restarted the bot with > showdiff commented out. In the past the pywikibot output was indeed rather slow when there

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Can't use hints on latest versions

2011-02-25 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Arkaitz Zubiaga wrote: > Hello, > On latest versions, pywikipediabot is ignoring the hints I give either by > using -hint:lang:page, or -askhints and typing them manually afterward. It > should work as usual according to the documentation in interwiki.py, though. >

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Humans vs bots: 0:1

2011-02-03 Thread Andre Engels
The first issue is indeed that the wrong interwiki has to be removed on _all_ languages to stop it from returning, but even with that one could still get into problems because there might be bots that visited some languages _before_ your removal, and others _after_ it. They would then consider the

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Commit access requests

2011-01-16 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Bináris wrote: > 2011/1/16 Andre Engels >> >> As we're talking about commit access anyway - I _think_ I have commit >> access, but I have no idea where and how I can commit... Can anyone >> enlighten me? >> >> > B

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Commit access requests

2011-01-16 Thread Andre Engels
As we're talking about commit access anyway - I _think_ I have commit access, but I have no idea where and how I can commit... Can anyone enlighten me? -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com ___ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] replace.py - annoying characters on display

2010-07-29 Thread Andre Engels
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Bináris wrote: > Earlier when using replace.py, ndash (Alt 0150) characters appeared on my > display as yellow - marks. This was good, I knew that a "-" was "-", and a > yellow "-" was – (Alt 0150). And the text was readable. Now these characters > appear as yell

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Pywikipedia-svn] SVN: [8352] trunk/pywikipedia/userinterfaces/transliteration.py

2010-07-12 Thread Andre Engels
I'll look some more into this this evening, I found that it's not working as good as I hoped. I did some testing, and it looked good, but after submitting I realized I had tested on ka: instead of kn: - oops! The current code is already an improvement over all-question-marks, but vowels are not inc

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Request for feedback on rewrite branch

2010-04-20 Thread Andre Engels
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Morten Wang wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Russell Blau wrote: >> Hi, I have just updated the installer and added an instruction file.  I >> would be interested to know if you find it easier to install the bot and get >> it running using the new setup.p

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Pywikipedia-svn] SVN: [7169] trunk/pywikipedia/flickrripper.py

2009-08-28 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 6:13 PM, wrote: > Revision: 7169 > Author:   multichill > Date:     2009-08-23 16:13:23 + (Sun, 23 Aug 2009) > > Log Message: > --- > First version of flickrripper. > It works, but I still have to do a lot to get a nice program. > > Added Paths: > --- >

Re: [Pywikipedia-l] help

2009-04-22 Thread Andre Engels
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:10 AM, Amir sarabadani wrote: > Hi,I have a interwiki bot and live in Iran.Iran filtered es.wp and my > bot can't read this site but they can't filtered secure > serevers(https://secure.wikimedia.org/) and I want to run bot with > secure servers and must changes wikipedia