[Wikia-l] New Repo - Wikia-Pywikibot

[DanTMan]

Took the tip. Though I did the monobook force manually myself. That 
patch may have aged and missed new things, also that one for Export was 
redundant (Export is a raw page with no skin).

Actually, I was planning on doing something one up on what you thought 
of. Though, when I first thought of it, the pywikipediabot guys rejected it.
I was going to tweak the function that grabs family files. In a way so 
that when you use -family:wikia_/name/ and it cannot find a Wikia 
family, it will fallback to a special class which will use the API to 
grab namespace and other information about the wiki. Then it will save 
that data to a flat file (What's the point of building a brand new 
family file for each wiki, just store it all in a flatfile) and thus the 
framework will work all over wikia without ever needing a family file, 
unless your wiki is desynced from Wikia (ie: Uncyclopedia), or is one of 
the few which use the /w format cause they moved to Wikia from another 
place and need link compatibility.
Of course, that would be changed so that now you would simply use 
-family:/name/ when I get around to building that for this repo.

As for your patch.
I did some file searching before I made my change.
But I did it in the reverse of you and found some other info:
- export_address is the function which gives out the export page address.
-- _GetAll.getData is the only thing which calls for that address 
(besides perhaps one of my scripts or something real odd we don't need 
to worry about)
--- getall is the function which scripts actually use to grab multiple 
pages of data.
I don't know what tree leads replace.py to getall cause I didn't do 
enough hunting. But however, you know the "Getting ## pages from 
/somesite/..." that shows up as output in replace.py to indicate data 
being grabbed. That is part of getall, and that's the only place which 
has that output.

The issue with editing get other than the fact that you are also 
applying that replacement to the edit page text you should not be 
applying it to, is that there are 7 other scripts which call getall. Not 
only that, but that includes the pagegenerators (which are likely what 
replace.py is actually using to get the data), and even the 
disambiguation scripts. So by editing get instead of _GetAll the scripts 
which use getall or a page generator like they are supposed to are all 
still broken.

~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)

C Stafford wrote:
> re: http://svn.nadir-point.com/viewvc/wikia-pywikibot/wikipedia.py?r1=10&r2=9&pathrev=10
> see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1885569&group_id=93107&atid=603139
>
> also, in general
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1916496&group_id=93107&atid=603141
>
>
> since i was doing random bot work all around wikia, i got tired of
> manually creating a family file for each wiki, especially when i knew
> i was only going to be botting there this one time.
> i figured it would be worth the time to write something to generate
> the family files dynamically (well, with some cache) from the wiki's
> current namespace structure (yay Special:Export), than to have an
> archive of only certain ones.
>
> so i wrote one. works quite nicely too, random sample url from the
> wiki goes in, family file come out.
>
> sadly, its only here on my local machine right now (i had it online
> briefly for some testing, thanks again manticore and jack). i'll see
> what i can do it get it cleaned up (and protected against attacks) and
> with a better interface and put online for people.
>
> -ubrfzy
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