Meza/Notes on Implementing a Pywikibot

This assumes you have a MEZA mediawiki 34.x farm running on a local VM with 2 wikis installed MyWikiA and MyWikiB

Following the tutorial at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Installation

Verify the pywikibot requirements

Fortunately MW 34.x uses python2 AND python3 .. so be sure to use python3 and pip3 in these instructions

Test version of Python: $ python3 --version

result: Python 3.5.6

ok to install pywikibot

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verify version of pip $ pip3 --version

result pip 9.0.1 from /usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages (python 3.5)

Install Pywikibot

Download and unpack python3 version of pywikibot into home directory

$ cd ~
$ wget -c https://tools.wmflabs.org/pywikibot/core_stable.tar.gz -O - | tar -xz

test pywikibot on Mediawiki.org

generate user configuration file

$ cd /home/<username>/core_stable/
$ sudo python3 pwb.py generate_user_files

1. selected option 6 for mediawiki
2. entered my username for mediawiki.org

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sudo python3 pwb.py login

provided my password and viola .. I am logged in to my mediawiki.org account via pywiki...

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Ctrl-C .. now let's set up for my local VBox MEZA wiki using help from: Manual:Pywikibot/Use on third-party wikis

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