PyWikibot [1] is a Python-based framework to write bots for MediaWiki. There are currently 2 versions of pywikibot currently used:
- version 1.0 (also known as pywikibot-compat) is the legacy version
- version 2.0 (also known as pywikibot-core) is a rewrite of the original framework, focusing solely on MediaWiki wikis with an API (version 1.14 or newer) and offering an improved internal architecture.
There are a number of scripts used by various robot operators that were used in pywikibot-compat but have not yet been adapted to work with pywikibot-core. One of those is commonscat.py, which allows you to add the template {{commonscat}} (a link to a category from Wikimedia Commons) to categories. The tool works by following the interwiki links. If the template is present on another langauge page, the bot will use it.
You can find information about how to convert the script on [2], [3]. Patches can be submited through the gerrit uploader [4] (you need a MediaWiki.org account). More documentation on gerrit can be found at [5].
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/2.0/Conversion
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/i18n_conversion
[4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/gerrit-patch-uploader/
[5] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Gerrit
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