Hi lovely Pywikibot folks. I'm the author of tor's python library [1]
and recently decided to see what it's like to volunteer for this
community instead.
I have a few newcomer questions...
1. This email list and #pywikibot are remarkably quiet (~2/month as
compared with the 'handful a week' described by the wiki [2]). Does
pywikibot have any other communication channels (say, to request a
bot) with more activity?
2. I created a bot account with a BotPassword to give our readme's
example a whirl but Wikipedia evidently blocks bot access to its
sandbox page?
% cat demo.py
import pywikibot
site = pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikipedia') # The site we want to run our bot on
page = pywikibot.Page(site, 'Wikipedia:Sandbox')
page.text = 'hello world'
page.save('pywikibot practice') # Saves the page
% python pwb.py demo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "pwb.py", line 363, in <module>
if not main():
File "pwb.py", line 355, in main
run_python_file(filename,
File "pwb.py", line 74, in run_python_file
exec(compile(source, filename, 'exec', dont_inherit=True),
File "./demo.py", line 5, in <module>
page.save('pywikibot practice') # Saves the page
File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py",
line 1452, in wrapper
return obj(*__args, **__kw)
File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py",
line 1452, in wrapper
return obj(*__args, **__kw)
File "/home/atagar/Desktop/pywikibot/core/pywikibot/page/__init__.py",
line 1168, in save
raise pywikibot.OtherPageSaveError(
pywikibot.exceptions.OtherPageSaveError: Edit to page
[[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] failed:
Editing restricted by {{bots}}, {{nobots}} or site's equivalent of
{{in use}} template
CRITICAL: Exiting due to uncaught exception <class
'pywikibot.exceptions.OtherPageSaveError'>
Am I reading this error correctly? If so, maybe I could change our
readme to something that works out of the box? If that would be ok,
any tip on what it should demonstrate?
3. How do I run pywikibot's tests? I'd like to note the command on
our development wiki [3].
Thanks! -Damian
[1] https://stem.torproject.org/
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Communication#pywikibot
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Development
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