Project title: Pi bot revamp
Brief summary: [[User:Pi bot]] makes a wide variety of automated edits to Wikidata, Commons, and elsewhere - per the tasks listed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pi_bot . It runs on a local Raspberry Pi that will have downtime during the hackathon as I move house, which means that I can bring the Pi with me to the hackathon, so it's a good opportunity to revamp its setup.
Expected outcomes: More reliable setup, better setup at https://github.com/mpeel/wikicode/, more modern coding standards
Project leads: Mike Peel
Contributors: All help welcome, particularly with updating the setup to a more modern standard, and increasing multilingual support of Pi bot's tasks
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Need to investigate why Pi bot is not always logged in, and ideally also reduce the number of queries it is making, per https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Mike_Peel#Pi_bot_may_be_affected_by_rate_limits ....!
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Current status:
- Pi bot is reinstalled, now using the latest Raspberry Pi OS and pywikibot version
- I'm modifying scripts to ensure that they are logged in, and moving them into https://github.com/mpeel/wikicode/tree/master/pibot
- My IP has changed, so I don't want to restart non-logged-in scripts until they're updated as that will likely quickly result in an API block...