Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/65/
Reported by: tuvic
Created on: 2006-07-19 13:01:54
Subject: Ask before creating graphs in interwiki.py
Original description:
In the interwiki.py, there's a very handy feature to
create graphs of ambigious interwikis. The only
annoyance, is that it takes ages if the amount of pages
is big. Also, it doesn't look to be able to create
correct png's of those huge interwiki-layouts. \(but
that might be an error in pydot maybe\)

To get rid of this annoyance, I'd like the
interwiki-bot to ask wether of not to create a graph. I
experimented already a little, and came up with this
rudimentary code:

In stead of

if config.interwiki\_graph:
self.createGraph\(\)

I'dd add something like this:

if config.interwiki\_graph:
print "Found %s error\(s\) in %s wiki\(s\) \(total: %s
pages\)"% \(nerr,len\(new.items\(\)\),
len\(self.foundin.iterkeys\(\)\)\)
while 1:
dodraw = wikipedia.input\(u"Do you want to draw a
graph? \[\(y\)es, \(n\)o\] : "\)
if dodraw:
if dodraw in 'nN':
\# Don't draw a graph
break
elif dodraw in 'yY':
self.createGraph\(\)
break

Maybe there could be some command-line option that can
be set to always draw a graph if the number of pages is
below a certain amount, or something like that.

Thanks, Tuvic

P.S. While I came up with this idea, created code, and
tested it a bit, the interwikibot is now already 2
hours trying to make a graph of the interwikis of
Albania...

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/feature-requests/65