Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/R. Hillgentleman

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R. Hillgentleman

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Operator: Hillgentleman

Automatic or Manually Assisted: manual

Programming Language(s): python + pywikipedia

Function Summary: inter-wiki

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): once in a while

Edit rate requested: at most 3 edits per minute (more likely one edit every 5 minutes during operation)

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): on zh-yue:

Function Details: the latest interwiki.py + a slightly old the latest wikipedia.py

Discussion

Note

I have restricted the edit tests in the English wikipedia to my userpages, except for two stray edits, on Chang'e 1 and United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, during which I had set the argument -whenneeded instead of -localonly, where local refers to the wikipedia in Cantonese. Hillgentleman 23:42, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

• Automated edits are usually made from a separate bot account. Have you registered a separate account that includes the word bot somewhere in its name? - Mgm|^(talk) 18:33, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
  • "R." stands for Robot. My tribute to Asimov. Hillgentleman 02:47, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Is there a reason that you cannot update to the latest revision of pywikipediabot? If not, please do so. I'd really rather not have a bot running on the project to which the latest bugfixes/features are not regularly applied. — madman bum and angel 01:51, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

• I obtained the snapshot at 2007-8-11 from sourceforge and it works. I have tried updating it with tortoiseSVN and somehow it didn't work. So I reverted it to the old version, and only updated by hand individual files, such as interwiki.py and replace.py. But after I copyed the new wikipedia.py, it didn't work ('module object has no attribute base_dir). So I use the old working wikipedia.py. Thanks. Hillgentleman 07:53, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

{{BAGAssistanceNeeded}} - Approved for trial? It's already made a few edits... — H₂O —  10:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Im happy ish.. But the user does need to get it sorted so they can get access to the latest working svn copy fairly easily... Reedy Boy 12:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

It would be great if there is a simple way to install all the files in windows. I can cut and paste all of them from svn if it is absolutely necessary. I have tried to trace the problem (ie cutting-and-pasting the new files on top of the old files) through wikipedia.py ->config.py -> wikipediatools.py ->terminal_interface.py (in the userinterfaces directory) , and I run out of steps. It has to do with an attribute called "base_dir" which seems to have been added recently, or relies on some other things which have been added recently. Thanks. --Hillgentleman 17:05, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

• I have updated the files with tortoiseSVN and it is now running properly. Actually , the problem was that I had localised some of the pages and forgot to fix the syntax after the update. Hillgentleman 17:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thats good enough for me now. Approved for trial (50 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. =) Reedy Boy 18:48, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Hillgentleman 01:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

{{OperatorAssistanceNeeded}} - Any news/Updates —Reedy Boy 10:41, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Hello. The robot is close to the 50-edit limit, and so I have reduced it use. Hillgentleman (talk) 15:12, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

 Approved. —Reedy Boy 21:43, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

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