General pages changes scripts#

archivebot script#

archivebot.py - discussion page archiving bot

usage:

python pwb.py archivebot [OPTIONS] [TEMPLATE_PAGE]

Several TEMPLATE_PAGE templates can be given at once. Default is User:MiszaBot/config. Bot examines backlinks (Special:WhatLinksHere) to all TEMPLATE_PAGE templates. Then goes through all pages (unless a specific page specified using options) and archives old discussions. This is done by breaking a page into threads, then scanning each thread for timestamps. Threads older than a specified threshold are then moved to another page (the archive), which can be named either basing on the thread’s name or then name can contain a counter which will be incremented when the archive reaches a certain size.

Transcluded template may contain the following parameters:

{{TEMPLATE_PAGE
|archive =
|algo =
|counter =
|maxarchivesize =
|minthreadsleft =
|minthreadstoarchive =
|archiveheader =
|key =
}}

Meanings of parameters are:

archive              Name of the page to which archived threads will be put.
                     Must be a subpage of the current page. Variables are
                     supported.
algo                 Specifies the maximum age of a thread. Must be
                     in the form old(<delay>) where <delay> specifies
                     the age in seconds (s), hours (h), days (d),
                     weeks (w), or years (y) like 24h or 5d. Default is
                     old(24h).
counter              The current value of a counter which could be assigned as
                     variable. Will be updated by bot. Initial value is 1.
maxarchivesize       The maximum archive size before incrementing the counter.
                     Value can be given with appending letter like K or M
                     which indicates KByte or MByte. Default value is 200K.
minthreadsleft       Minimum number of threads that should be left on a page.
                     Default value is 5.
minthreadstoarchive  The minimum number of threads to archive at once. Default
                     value is 2.
archiveheader        Content that will be put on new archive pages as the
                     header. This parameter supports the use of variables.
                     Default value is {{talkarchive}}
key                  A secret key that (if valid) allows archives not to be
                     subpages of the page being archived.

Variables below can be used in the value for “archive” in the template above; numbers are latin digits:

%(counter)d          the current value of the counter
%(year)d             year of the thread being archived
%(isoyear)d          ISO year of the thread being archived
%(isoweek)d          ISO week number of the thread being archived
%(semester)d         semester term of the year of the thread being archived
%(quarter)d          quarter of the year of the thread being archived
%(month)d            month (as a number 1-12) of the thread being archived
%(monthname)s        localized name of the month above
%(monthnameshort)s   first three letters of the name above
%(week)d             week number of the thread being archived

Alternatively you may use localized digits. This is only available for a few site languages. Refer NON_LATIN_DIGITS whether there is a localized one:

%(localcounter)s     the current value of the counter
%(localyear)s        year of the thread being archived
%(localisoyear)s     ISO year of the thread being archived
%(localisoweek)s     ISO week number of the thread being archived
%(localsemester)s    semester term of the year of the thread being archived
%(localquarter)s     quarter of the year of the thread being archived
%(localmonth)s       month (as a number 1-12) of the thread being archived
%(localweek)s        week number of the thread being archived

The ISO calendar starts with the Monday of the week which has at least four days in the new Gregorian calendar. If January 1st is between Monday and Thursday (including), the first week of that year started the Monday of that week, which is in the year before if January 1st is not a Monday. If it’s between Friday or Sunday (including) the following week is then the first week of the year. So up to three days are still counted as the year before.

movepages script#

This script can move pages

These command line parameters can be used to specify which pages to work on:

This script supports use of pagegenerators arguments.

Furthermore, the following command line parameters are supported:

-from and -to     The page to move from and the page to move to.

-noredirect       Leave no redirect behind.

-notalkpage       Do not move this page's talk page (if it exists)

-nosubpages       Do not move subpages

-prefix           Move pages by adding a namespace prefix to the names of the
                  pages. (Will remove the old namespace prefix if any)
                  Argument can also be given as "-prefix:namespace:".

-always           Don't prompt to make changes, just do them.

-skipredirects    Skip redirect pages (Warning: increases server load)

-summary          Prompt for a custom summary, bypassing the predefined message
                  texts. Argument can also be given as "-summary:XYZ".

-pairsfile        Read pairs of file names from a file. The file must be in a
                  format [[frompage]] [[topage]] [[frompage]] [[topage]] ...
                  Argument can also be given as "-pairsfile:filename"

pagefromfile script#

Bot to upload pages from a text file

This bot takes its input from the UTF-8 text file that contains a number of pages to be put on the wiki. The pages should all have the same beginning and ending text (which may not overlap). The beginning and ending text is not uploaded with the page content by default.

As a pagename is by default taken the first text block from the page content marked in bold (wrapped between ‘’’ and ‘’’). If you expect the page title not to be present in the text or marked by different markers, use -titlestart, -titleend, and -notitle parameters.

Specific arguments:

-file:xxx       The filename we are getting our material from,
                the default value is "dict.txt"
-begin:xxx      The text that marks the beginning of a page,
                the default value is "{{-start-}}"
-end:xxx        The text that marks the end of the page,
                the default value is "{{-stop-}}"
-include        Include the beginning and end markers to the page
-textonly       Text is given without markers. Only one page text is given.
                -begin and -end options are ignored.
-titlestart:xxx The text used in place of ''' for identifying
                the beginning of a page title
-titleend:xxx   The text used in place of ''' for identifying
                the end of the page title
-notitle        Do not include the page title, including titlestart
                and titleend, to the page. Can be used to specify unique
                page title above the page content
-title:xxx      The page title is given directly. Ignores -titlestart,
                -titleend and -notitle options
-nocontent:xxx  If the existing page contains specified statement,
                the page is skipped from editing
-noredirect     Do not upload on redirect pages
-summary:xxx    The text used as an edit summary for the upload.
                If the page exists, standard messages for prepending,
                appending, or replacement are appended after it
-autosummary    Use MediaWiki's autosummary when creating a new page,
                overrides -summary
-minor          Set the minor edit flag on page edits
-showdiff       Show difference between current page and page to upload,
                also forces the bot to ask for confirmation
                on every edit

If the page to be uploaded already exists, it is skipped by default. But you can override this behavior if you want to:

-appendtop      Add the text to the top of the existing page
-appendbottom   Add the text to the bottom of the existing page
-force          Overwrite the existing page

It is possible to define a separator after the ‘append’ modes which is added between the existing and the new text. For example a parameter -appendtop:foo would add ‘foo’ between them. A new line can be added between them by specifying ‘n’ as a value.