=========================================================================== **This is a package to include robots for MediaWiki wikis like Wikipedia.** =========================================================================== Some example robots are included. ================================= These programs can actually modify the live wiki on the net, and proper wiki-etiquette should be followed before running it on any wiki. To get started on proper usage of the bot framework, refer to `Manual:Pywikibot `_. The contents of the package =========================== Bots and scripts ---------------- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bots and Scripts | +==========================+=========================================================+ | add_text.py | Adds text at the top or end of pages. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | archivebot.py | Archives discussion threads. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | basic.py | Is a template from which simple bots can be made. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | blockpagechecker.py | Deletes any protection templates that are on pages | | | which aren't actually protected. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | category.py | Add a category link to all pages mentioned on a page, | | | change or remove category tags. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | category_redirect.py | Maintain category redirects and replace links to | | | redirected categories. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | change_pagelang.py | Changes the content language of pages. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | checkimages.py | Check recently uploaded files. Checks if a file | | | description is present and if there are other problems | | | in the image's description. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | claimit.py | Adds claims to Wikidata items based on categories. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | clean_sandbox.py | This bot resets a sandbox with predefined text. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | commonscat.py | Adds {{commonscat}} to Wikipedia categories (or | | | articles), if other language Wikipedia already has such | | | a template. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | commons_information.py | Insert a language template into the description field. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | coordinate_import.py | Coordinate importing script. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | cosmetic_changes.py | Can do slight modifications to a wiki page source code | | | such that the code looks cleaner. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | data_ingestion.py | A generic bot to do batch uploading to Commons. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | delete.py | This script can be used to delete pages en masse. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | delinker.py | Delink file references of deleted images. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | djvutext.py | Extracts OCR text from djvu files and uploads onto | | | pages in the "Page" namespace on Wikisource. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | download_dump.py | Downloads dumps from dumps.wikimedia.org | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | fixing_redirects.py | Correct all redirect links of processed pages. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | harvest_template.py | Template harvesting script. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | illustrate_wikidata.py | Bot to add images to Wikidata items. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | image.py | Script to replace transclusions of files. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | imagetransfer.py | Given a wiki page, check the interwiki links for | | | images, and let the user choose among them for | | | images to upload. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | interwiki.py | A robot to check interwiki links on all pages (or | | | a range of pages) of a wiki. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | interwikidata.py | Script to handle interwiki links based on Wikibase. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | listpages.py | Print a list of pages, defined by a page generator. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | misspelling.py | Similar to solve_disambiguation.py. It is supposed to | | | fix links that contain common spelling mistakes. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | movepages.py | Bot that can move pages to another title. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | newitem.py | Script creates new items on Wikidata based on criteria. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | noreferences.py | Searches for pages where is missing | | | although a tag is present, and in that case adds | | | a new references section. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | nowcommons.py | This bot can delete images with NowCommons template. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | pagefromfile.py | This bot takes its input from a file that contains a | | | number of pages to be put on the wiki. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | parser_function_count.py | Find expensive templates that are subject to be | | | converted to Lua. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | patrol.py | Obtains a list pages and marks the edits as patrolled | | | based on a whitelist. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | protect.py | Protect and unprotect pages en masse. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | redirect.py | Fix double redirects and broken redirects. Note: | | | solve_disambiguation also has functions which treat | | | redirects. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | reflinks.py | Search for references which are only made of a link | | | without title and fetch the html title from the link to | | | use it as the title of the wiki link in the reference. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | replace.py | Search articles for a text and replace it by another | | | text. Both text are set in two configurable | | | text files. The bot can either work on a set of given | | | pages or crawl an SQL dump. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | replicate_wiki.py | Replicates pages in wiki to a second wiki within family | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | revertbot.py | Script that can be used for reverting certain edits. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | solve_disambiguation.py | Interactive robot doing disambiguation. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | speedy_delete.py | Help sysops to quickly check and/or delete pages listed | | | for speedy deletion. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | template.py | Change one template (that is {{...}}) into another. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | templatecount.py | Display the list of pages transcluding a given list | | | of templates. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | touch.py | Bot goes over all pages of the home wiki, and edits | | | them without changes. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | transferbot.py | Transfers pages from a source wiki to a target wiki. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | unusedfiles.py | Bot appends some text to all unused images and other | | | text to the respective uploaders. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | upload.py | Upload an image to a wiki. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | watchlists.py | Allows access to the account's watchlist. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | weblinkchecker.py | Check if external links are still working. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | welcome.py | Script to welcome new users. | +--------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ Maintenance ----------- +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | maintenance | Framework helper scripts | +========================+=========================================================+ | cache.py | Script for showing and deleting API cache. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | colors.py | Utility to show pywikibot colors. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | make_i18n_dict.py | Generate an i18n file from a given script. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | sorting_order.py | Updates interwiki sorting order in family.py file. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | wikimedia_sites.py | Updates the language lists in Wikimedia family files. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ Others ------ +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | Others | | +========================+=========================================================+ | i18n (folder) | Contains i18n translations for bot edit summaries. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | userscripts (folder) | Empty folder for user scripts. | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ | README.rst | This file (Short info of all scripts). | +------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------+ **External packages could be required with Pywikibot:** The pwb.py wrapper scripts informs about the requirement and how to install. More precise information, and a list of the options that are available for the various programs, can be retrieved by running the bot with the -help parameter, e.g.:: python pwb.py interwiki -help ** Outdated and deleted scripts can be recovered.** Refer `Outdated core scripts` and `Outdated compat scripts` in our documentation: https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/master/scripts/index.html#scripts-descriptions