the wikimedia-utilities Revision class has functionality than the pywikibot Revision class does not have.
https://bitbucket.org/halfak/wikimedia-utilities/src/cb1177b18ad757210e14dd1923d5393a3d2a9c1a/wmf/api.py?at=default#cl-46
It would be great if Aaron could copy his logic into the pywikibot Revision class to maintain attribution.
If not, pywikibot should re-implement it with the same signature.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Declined | None | T89763 wikiwho on pywikibot | |||
| Declined | Halfak | T89764 Implement wikimedia-utilities Revision methods |
That'd an old unmaintained utility. See https://github.com/halfak/MediaWiki-Utilities and more specifically, http://pythonhosted.org/mediawiki-utilities/lib/reverts.html#mw.lib.reverts.api.check for revert detection code.
Does the xml_dump sub-package contain any dependencies outside of that sub-package? i.e. could pywikibot use MediaWiki-Utilities for only dump processing, replacing the pywikibot dump processing which probably isnt as mature ?
could pywikibot use MediaWiki-Utilities for only dump processing
Totally. :)
The only substantial dependency is the use of external UNIX utilities for processing 7zip XML dumps. Regretfully, there is no python library with support for 7zip.
Ok, it looks like it isnt useful to be compatible with the old version of #mediawiki-utilities , as wikiwho functionality is already in the new mediawiki-utilities.