Summary

Request enabling of the edit API

Discussion

I'm trying to make bot that automagically applys Code Tag Fixer in all Tasks using Mediawiki API (http://www.rosettacode.org/w/api.php), but Mediawiki API "action=edit" is disabled, so i can't edit pages automagically with Mediawiki API, making a bot impossible.

Can some admin enable this function? --Guga360 18:09, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

PS: Ignore my poor english.

Because of the potential for abuse, I'm going to need each bot to have its own authentication credentials, and I'll grand API privileges on a per-bot basis. Create an account for your bot and give me the details. I'll work on it when I get home.--Short Circuit 19:26, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

OK, bot created, i'm waiting to be put in Bots group. --GugaTagFixer 19:49, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

My bot is almost 98% complete, I create a lot of functions. But now, the function is

<lang python>apply("Article_Title",get_token("MyBot","MyPassword")</lang>

I need just iterate apply() in allpages. --Guga360 21:43, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

While we're on the subject, does anyone think we should have Help:Adding a Bot? Does it need to be that formal? Will we have that many bots? --Mwn3d 20:24, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

No, Wikipedia already has a "Creating a bot" article, it's the same thing. A Help:Adding a Bot can link to a Wikipedia article. Or something else.--Guga360 21:43, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

I expect we'll have as many bots as are well-behaved, do useful things, and don't completely suck up my slice's CPU and bandwidth allocation.--Short Circuit 23:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

My bot is 100% complete, i'm waiting my bot to be put in Bots group. --GugaTagFixer 00:44, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I'll add it in a moment. In the mean time, would you mind posting the entire code of your bot (sans its actual login name and password) in its user page, so other folks can review and comment? --Short Circuit 01:43, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

It isn't working. "Unrecognized value for parameter 'action': edit", What happened? And yes, I'm logged in, because i can list 5000 pages perfectly. Did you enable $wgEnableWriteAPI in LocalSettings.php? --Guga360 02:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

It's set to true now. --Short Circuit 03:55, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Try again. I've now explicitly set both wgEnableAPI and wgEnableWriteAPI, and added a few privileges to the bot group. --Short Circuit 08:39, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Now it's working perfectly, i already solved "article with _" bug.

It;s not perfect. It's messing up redirects. --Mwn3d 15:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I already fixed it. But this is a problem in Wikimedia API, not in my code.

We also need to go back through the Ada examples and change "</lang>" to "</lang>"--Mwn3d 15:57, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I will fix it.

Fixed, running bot again.

I'm using a better Code Tag Fixer, but it does not fix Solutions with <pre>, it's possible replace: {{header|Modula-3}}\n<pre>.*</pre> with {{header|Modula-3}}\n<lang modula-3>.*</lang>? I think that this will be pretty hard, but possible. (And buggy.) --GugaTagFixer 16:10, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Mwn3d: My bot fixes deprecated tags, not incorrect tags. --GugaTagFixer 16:13, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Sorry, I didn't mean that your bot needed to do it. I just meant it needed to be done. --Mwn3d 16:35, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

OK, i will try to making another bot, to fix incorrect tags. It almost done. --GugaTagFixer 17:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Anyone have any idea what I need to do to keep GugaTagFixer's edits from flooding the Recent Changes list? Apparently the "Hide bots" default isn't working, and I'm not sure why. --Short Circuit 16:37, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't know why too, but you can delete some logs. --GugaTagFixer 17:08, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't care if it gets into the logs, I'm just annoyed that my primary means of following activity, the RSS feed, mostly consists of bot edit entries right now. That can't be retconned. Ah well, I'll figure it out later. --Short Circuit 17:18, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

That last edit (posting here) by the bot didn't show up in the recent changes. --Mwn3d 17:53, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, i fixed Case-Sensitive, Bot Flag, and Redirects (G++, GTK+, Visual C++, RCBF/C++). --GugaTagFixer 17:55, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Heh. Indeed, it looks like it was fixed before I even mentioned it. :-)