[Wikia-l] New Repo - Wikia-Pywikibot

[DanTMan]

    /Triple posting to Wikia-l, Wikia-Tech-l, and Wikia-Bots-l for 
relevance./
^_^ As a favor for some who requested it, I'm now maintaining something 
that a large number of bot users on Wikia should love.

In IRC someone requested that I create a new SVN repo for the family 
files I've been hoarding (heh, just never had an easy way to publish 
them that didn't lag).

So now... I have a brand new wikia-pywikibot repo in my SVN setup.

The repo is primarily a clone of the pywikipediabot repo. However, 
instead of the mass number of their family files, there are a few family 
files from there brought over, but the families/ folder actually 
consists primarily of wikia family files that I've compiled over the 
ages of requests.

Of course, since it's something I'm using a merge tool for, it'll lag 
behind the actual pywikipediabot distro a little bit. But I'll try to 
update it whenever I need to run a bot. And of course, anyone can come 
into #wikia at any time and poke me to merge in changes from the 
pywikipediabot repo.

Additionally, the repo contains most of the various assortment of used, 
defunct, half-baked, and obsolete bot scripts I've built. Of course, 
most are pointless. However, a few of them (batchcmd.py is probably a 
good example) are fairly useful. I'm going to try an clean the comments 
up in them to note which are good and which are bad. But a fair bit of 
them are good for seeing methods of programing special bots that can be 
used. Especially with how I'm known for my sync bots.

So, anyone can view the repo online at:
    http://svn.nadir-point.com/viewvc/wikia-pywikibot/

And it can be checked out with:
    svn://svn.nadir-point.com/wikia-pywikibot/ <your-dir-name>

Additionally, since I have the tarball option enabled which SF doesn't. 
People who absolutely can't use SVN (Though I would absolutely recommend 
using SVN rather than just downloading) can download a recent snapshot with:
    http://svn.nadir-point.com/viewvc/wikia-pywikibot.tar.gz

However, please only use that option if you're just trying to get it 
setup for a one time only thing. Please don't go repeat downloading 
snapshots to update your copy. It will be much easier on yourself, and 
less greedy of my bandwidth if you use subversion.

Of course, if you only want some family files.
    http://svn.nadir-point.com/viewvc/wikia-pywikibot/families.tar.gz

A number of family files are pre-loaded, and so it's easier to get 
running on wikia. Just checkout, then head over to the normal 
Pywikipediabot page to get instructions on configuring it:
    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot

I'm considering creating a simple cli script for building and updating a 
wikia-specific user-config.py file for those who aren't that 
knowledgeable about it.

But just for now... I'll go and write up a new family file for 
communitytest so that people can have at the system with a 
pre-distributed family file for Wikia's test wiki.

And of course, if any of you have any wikia wiki you need a family file 
for, I'd be happy to draft up a new file for it.

Also feel free to poke me for removal of any wikimedia specific scripts 
there, and also if you have any handy scripts you want me to commit for 
you. However, I'll need to look over some security stuff before I give 
out commit access to other people.

-- 
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)

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