Free Software Directory:Pywikibot

MediaWiki

• Add this to LocalSettings.php

# Allow batch uploading for pywikibot
$wgGrantPermissions['editprotected']['editarticles'] = true;

Generate a bot account for your user

The bot will be associated with the user name that are logged in.

• Login as WikiSysop in http://directory.fsf.org/
• Visit http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords and generate a new bot.
  • Bot name: wikibot
  • Store the generated password somewhere

pywikibot

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo pip install --upgrade pip
git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core pywikibot-core
cd pywikibot-core
python generate_family_file.py 'http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page' 'freesoftwaredirectorydev'
python pwb.py generate_user_files
# Select family of sites we are working on, just enter the number or name (default: wikipedia): freesoftwaredirectorydev
# The only known language: en
# The language code of the site we're working on (default: en): 
# Username on en:freesoftwaredirectorydev: WikiSysop
# Do you want to add any other projects? ([y]es, [N]o): n
# Do you want to add a BotPassword for WikiSysop? ([y]es, [N]o, [q]uit): y
# See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/BotPasswords to
# know how to get codes.Please note that plain text in /home/root
# /pywikibot-core/user-password.py and anyone with read access to that
# directory will be able read the file.
# BotPassword's "bot name" for WikiSysop: wikibot
# BotPassword's "password" for "WikiSysop" (no characters will be shown): 
# '/home/root/pywikibot-core/user-config.py' written.

Test pywikibot on MediaWiki

python pwb.py upload -always -ignorewarn ~/heckert_gnu.transp.small.png "Some description"

Further reading

Read https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Importing_XML_dumps#Using_pywikibot,_pagefromfile.py_and_Nokogiri for more information