Python wikipedia robot framework

Introduction

The Python Wikipedia Robot Framework is a collection of tools made to fit the maintenance need on Wikipedia, but it can also be used on other MediaWiki sites.

Getting the framework

There are two ways to get pywikipediabot, in order of preference: either get the latest version from SVN, get a 'nightly' or get a snapshot from sourceforge.

SVN

You can get the most recent version from svn; use the following commands on any *nix-like system:

svn co http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia pywikipedia

On other systems, use the url http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/pywikipedia/trunk/pywikipedia to get the latest revision. Alternatively, you can browse the repository from the viewvc web interface, but it is not advisable to update from the web interface.

Nightlies

Every night at 20:00 UTC a nightly snapshot from the repository is generated. You can get them from the wikimedia toolserver.

Mailing list

Please note the mailing list noted below is the sourceforge mailing list, and not the current development list. Please subscribe to pywikipedia-l to stay up to date!