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
>>
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