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This was a project to add support for Flow, the Wikimedia Foundation's new discussion framework, to Pywikibot, a Python framework widely used for bots operating on Foundation wikis. To accomplish this task, a module was implemented in Pywikibot with classes mapping to Flow data constructs, like topics and posts. Code supporting Flow-related API calls was also added, and tests were included for loading and saving operations. As it stands, Pywikibot-driven bots can now load Flow content, create new topics, reply to topics and posts, and lock and unlock topics.
Despite some delays, the MVP, which roughly corresponded to Phase 1, was completed and is already merged. The code not implemented is encapsulated in the rest of T109228 (Phase 2) and T109229 (Phase 3). There were also a few issues found in existing code within Flow and Pywikibot, which are detailed in several tasks on this project's workboard.
My demo will be modifying the scripts/unusedfiles.py bot script to post unused file messages to user talk pages that use Flow. The demo will be run on the testwiki as described in T108969. The code can be found in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/232737/.
User-level documentation can be found at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Flow. Here are a few screenshots of test results:
