I am only user of pwb, so some answers from my POV:
2013/10/18 Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> > 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? > 2. As I understand it there are two versions, core and compat. What is > pywikipedia core and what is compat? > > compat (formely trunk) is the older version, which is easier to use (script.py -parameters), but have some limitations core (formely rewrite) is newer, little bit harder to use (pwb.py script -parameters) and have some other limitations (some scripts were not rewrited yet) new names are little bi confusing (co*/co* vs. tr*/re*) > > 1. Why keep them both, it must be a lot of work to have to maintain > them both > 2. Recently all the bugs have been moved to bugzilla ... What is it > that you hope to achieve by this? > > Maybe some very old requests for features can be reopened and fulfilled > > 1. Recently all the code has been moved to git ... What is it that you > hope to achieve by this? > > This move have some problems - harder updating on windows, need of review causes longer time before patch is live > > 1. What is the biggest challenge running the pywikipedia bot? > > If you want to use more scripts, its good to know regexp :-) > > 1. How many people are using the pywikipedia bot and how many people > are developing code for pywikipedia bot > > After launch ow Wikidata many bots lost its work :-) e.g. my bot was active on all wikipedias, now works only on 2-4 and wiktionaries. > > 1. It is possible to use the pywikipedia bot in so many ways... Is it > easy to learn what it can and cannot do? > > When script have documentation inside, its easier. Some scripts have documentation on mediawiki.org, but nobody knows about it. > > 1. How long does it take before pywikipedia bot supports a new > Wikidata data type ? > > From my POV very long, but it can be only because lack of informations - i know only about two scripts which works on wikidata > > 1. There will be a pywikibot bugday... What is it and who can > participate? > > > > JAnD > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > >
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