VoWi

GitHub repository for VoWi bots, extensions and userscripts.

Bots

The mwbot module provides a lightweight MediaWiki API wrapper.

general/ contains scripts useful for any MediaWiki installation:

• rollback.py -- undo changes by a user with a specific edit summary (useful to undo batch edits of bots)
• subpage_mover.py -- move subpages, checking for collisions beforehand and without being limited to $wgMaximumMovedPages

vowi/ contains VoWi-specific scripts:

• mat_mover.py -- move LVAs with their resources
• bsp_mover.py -- move Beispiele to a new semester
• lva_fixer.py -- a script to fix LVA-Daten templates
• bsp_fixer.py -- a script to fix Beispiel templates
• baustein_fixer.py -- a script to fix templates in Kategorie:Textbausteine für Beispiele
• gen_bsptable.py -- a script to generate beispiel tables
• report.py -- report on incorrect template usage at VoWi:Report
• old_mat_counter.py -- a script to count the number of outdated resources so they can be excluded in the statistics on the main page

Installation

Install Python 3 and the requests and mwparserfromhell packages:

$ pip3 install requests mwparserfromhell

Install the mwbot package:

$ pip3 install -e ./mwbot

Create an .ini file with the following:

[root]
api=https://vowi.fsinf.at/api.php
username=Your Username
password=Your Password

Scripts can then be run as follows:

$ ACCT=your.ini ./script.py