Hi On 10/18/13, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hoi, > > Ok ... ten questions ... I want to publish the answers on my blog before > the pywikipedia bugday (october 24)... if only to get as many people as > possible to attend. > > When I send questions, I always indicate that some questions may not work > well. <grin> I can replace a question if need be </grin> > Thanks, > Gerard > > > 1. What is pywikipedia? 1-Pywikibot is a python-based framework made to interact Wikipedia and all other mediawiki-based sites
> 2. As I understand it there are two versions, core and compat. What is > pywikipedia core and what is compat? 2- Compat is older version of PWB, Core is newer version of PWB, I explain with more details in below > 3. Why keep them both, it must be a lot of work to have to maintain them > both 3-Compat and core are same on user side (there are just little differences in usage) but they are really different in their cores (handling connections, site modeling, etc.). Core is newer and has better efficiency, and the codes are really clean and understandable but It's also incomplete and incompatible with non-WMF wikis (It's not that doesn't have at all, but it's not good as compat), in other hand Compat is older and dirtier and creepy in some ways but It's compatible (compat is abbreviation of compatibility) and complete > 4. Recently all the bugs have been moved to bugzilla ... What is it that > you hope to achieve by this? Handling bugs will be a lot more easier, there will be more eyes to keep on debugging process, tasks will be centralized, it will be more wikified by merging in WMF infrastructure, you can see more in my suggestion page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual%20talk:Pywikipediabot/Migrating_to_bugzilla > 5. Recently all the code has been moved to git ... What is it that you > hope to achieve by this? We'll review patches (changes in codes) before committing them into main codes, handling different commits will be easier and main thing is now everybody can submit their patches and after a review by a developer, it can be merged directly There is a blog post about it but It's not very helpful for this issue: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/07/23/pywikipediabot-moving-to-git-on-july-26/ > 6. What is the biggest challenge running the pywikipedia bot? IMO It's not being so much user-friendly, It's a little hard to work with > 7. How many people are using the pywikipedia bot and how many people are > developing code for pywikipedia bot It has been widely used since 2003, and It has more than 100 authors but now they are just five active developers > 8. It is possible to use the pywikipedia bot in so many ways... Is it > easy to learn what it can and cannot do? Absolutely yes, there is lack of documentation but I can say you can do almost whatever you want on pages of Wikipedia by less than four lines if you want I can send you some example to understand it better > 9. How long does it take before pywikipedia bot supports a new Wikidata > data type ? Usually takes a week or two based on how much developers (including me) are willing to do > 10. There will be a pywikibot bugday... What is it and who can > participate? > 10-Anybody can participate, Bug day is procedure focused mainly on categorizing and prioritizing and closing non-reproducible bugs and fixing them if the bug is not very big deal. Because we just migrated there are ~700 open bugs (some of them are really old and it's fixed long time ago) so need to clean up them and so It's really necessary to have a "bug triage" > > > On 14 October 2013 21:49, Antoine Musso <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Le 14/10/13 16:11, Gerard Meijssen a écrit : >> > Hoi, >> > >> > Core and Compat are the two faces of pywikipedia. Who is interested to >> > answer some questions that helps me understand this better. >> >> As I understand it Compat is the old version of pywikibot started in >> 2003. Core is a full rewrite started in 2007. >> >> But I am merely a lurker here :-] >> >> > I would like to ask ten questions about this and publish the answers >> > on my blog. >> >> *be bold* >> >> -- >> Antoine "hashar" Musso >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pywikipedia-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >> > Best -- Amir _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
