Re: [Pywikipedia-l] [Mediawiki-api] [WARNING] Don't use dumpgenerator.py with API

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

Thank you very much John/Jack Phoenix and Betacommand!
I'm not sure you'll actually be able to dump that 90 % of code, because
it will probably be still needed as fallback/backwards compatibility
method for super-ancient MediaWiki releases and naughty sites hiding
their APIs and special pages, but it would be wonderful to rely less on it.
I'll write some specifications very soon.

Nemo

[Federico Leva (Nemo)]

The specifications for the rewrite should be complete now:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiTeam/Dumpgenerator_rewrite
Let me know how/where you prefer to procede and discuss me, I'll follow
you. :-)
As for IRC, I'm Nemo_bis everywhere; we have a #wikiteam channel on
EFNet (not super-useful), I'm on #wikimedia and related on FreeNode etc.

Are you sure that PWB has all possible fallbacks? I thought some of them
were removed at some point. Moreover, by downloading a few thousands
different wikis in the wild I can tell you there are some very tricky one...

Nemo