I upgraded all my pip modules yesterday, including pywikibot. Your
line numbers are 18 lines different from mine in _pages.py so you
might upgrade although that is unlikely to help.
Browsing around the source shows that @need_right('protect') is in
site/_apisite.py and is responsible for the message: 'User "None" does
not have required user right "protect"'.
site/_basesite.py returns None if self.logged_in() tests as false. My
guess is that you are not logged in and it looks like it would be easy
to stuff up Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration. I would try manually
entering lines of code into python to mimic a simple bot start-up,
then see if site.user() shows the bot name.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 4:04 PM Erik Sommer <ersot...@posteo.de> wrote:
>
> This experiment was the initial reason for my post. I have one bot
> configured and I tried to protect some pages. This is stack trace from
> this experiment:
>
> File "/home/esommer/workspace/WS_THEbotIT/service/protect.py", line
> 47, in task
> lemma.protect(reason="Schutz fertiger Seiten",
> File
> "/home/esommer/workspace/WS_THEbotIT/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pywikibot/page/_pages.py",
> line 1998, in protect
> self.site.protect(self, protections, reason, **kwargs)
> File
> "/home/esommer/workspace/WS_THEbotIT/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pywikibot/site/_decorators.py",
> line 89, in callee
> raise UserRightsError('User "{}" does not have required '
> pywikibot.exceptions.UserRightsError: User "None" does not have required
> user right "protect"
>
> The User "None" seems concerning. Is there a chance I screwed up the
> scopes when I generated the OAuth token at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose/oauth2?
>
> Cheers Erik
>
> On 06.09.22 07:42, Johnuniq wrote:
> > I don't know but many years ago I ran an admin bot on a non-WMF wiki.
> > A separate sysopnames variable was used to specify a user with admin
> > credentials. Sysopnames was removed from pywikibot and whereas I've
> > never used it, the theory is that now you have only a single bot user
> > as defined in usernames. Pywikibot uses that user for normal actions
> > and for admin actions. If admin privilege is needed, I think it first
> > checks if the user has the required privilege. Some info on what I'm
> > saying is at
> > https://www.mail-archive.com/pywikibot@lists.wikimedia.org/msg00712.html
> >
> > So if you had
> > usernames['wikisource']['de'] = 'Example'
> >
> > where Example has the bot and sysop flags, it should work. Try a
> > simple script to delete a junk user subpage and report what happens. I
> > don't know if it's possible with MediaWiki, but it's conceivable that
> > pywikibot does not give itself admin credentials unless required
> > (which might explain your debug results).
> >
> > Johnuniq
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 3:43 AM Erik Sommer <ersot...@posteo.de> wrote:
> >> No worries,
> >>
> >> I do software dev for a living. It's all local and no one is checking in
> >> credentials. But that wasn't really the question here.
> >>
> >> On 05.09.22 17:21, Roy Smith wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm a total newbie at pywikibot, but let me address the general issue of
> >> putting credentials in config files.
> >>
> >> Be very wary of how you store credentials. You should make sure they're
> >> in a file which is read-protected, and not in source control. Otherwise
> >> the entire world will have access to your secret credentials.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sep 5, 2022, at 10:14 AM, Erik Sommer <ersot...@posteo.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi list,
> >>
> >> I operate currently a bot on the German Wikisource. The bot was granted
> >> both groups, admin and bot. It is intended to be used as automated
> >> protection bot. I'm having trouble to put the right credentials in my
> >> user-config.py.
> >>
> >> It is currently coded like following pseudo-code:
> >>
> >> # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
> >>
> >> family = 'wikisource'
> >> mylang = 'de'
> >> usernames['wikisource']['de'] = '******'
> >>
> >> authenticate['de.wikisource.org'] = (....*****.....)
> >>
> >> the problem with this is that the framework only detect my bot as bot not
> >> as sysadmin. Groups taken from the debugging output: ['bot', '*', 'user',
> >> 'autoconfirmed']
> >>
> >> What do I have to add to my config, that the bot also get picket up as
> >> sysadmin? I already read
> >> (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/user-config.py) but
> >> doesn't make sense for me. It will not change anything if add the botname
> >> a second time to the usernames dictionary.
> >>
> >> Best Regards
> >>
> >> Erik Sommer
> >>
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