Python Mediawiki Tools

Python tools for mediawiki with the Translate plugin (some based on pywikibot). This is used for 4training to remove some bottlenecks of the project, providing different automation and reports (TODO: document the outcomes of these scripts). Hopefully, others can benefit from some scripts as well!

• Free software: GNU General Public License v3

The tools use the MediaWiki API.

Read-only scripts make direct use of the API calls. Bots writing to the system use the pywikibot framework.

• Python Mediawiki Tools
  • Setup
  • Run scripts
  • Testing and ensuring good code quality
  • File overview: Configuration and main entry scripts
  • More tools
  • License
  • Contributing and coding conventions
  • Communication
  • Credits

Setup

Note: pywikitools base path refers to the directory where you can find README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, and requirements.txt.

1. Install required libraries within a virtualenv:

   We strongly recommend you to use a virtual environment to manage your Python dependencies.

   • Install virtualenv:

     $ sudo python -m pip install virtualenv

   • Create a new virtual environment:

     $ virtualenv new_venv_name

   • Activate the virtual environment:

     $ source new_venv_name/bin/activate

   • At the root directory of pywikitools, run:

     $ pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Install LibreOffice UNO (python bridge, on linux)

   $ sudo apt-get install python3-uno

   This is required for our LibreOffice module and scripts using it (translateodt.py), and to run the complete test suite.

3. Set up configuration in config.ini:

   $ cp config.example.ini config.ini

   • Change the base path in config.ini to the directory where you cloned the pywikitools base directory, for example:

     base = /YOUR_HOME_PATH/pywikitools/
     

   • Configure all other necessary options like usernames and site (connect to 4training.net / test.4training.net / local docker-based server localhost:8082)

4. You're ready to go! Look at the different scripts and how to invoke them and try them out! To get to know everything and to understand what is going on, set the logging level to INFO (default is WARN) by adding -l info.

Run scripts

$ python3 path/to/script args

If you're not yet logged in, pywikibot will ask you for the password for the user you defined in config.ini. After successful login, the login cookie is stored in pywikibot-[UserName].lwp so you don't have to log in every time.

Testing and ensuring good code quality

From your base pywikitools path, use the following command to run the test suite.

$ python3 -m unittest discover -s pywikitools/test

Also, run the next command to check for linting issues

$ flake8

With GitHub Actions these two commands are automatically run also on every push or pull request in the repository. The goal is to cover all important code with good test coverage.

Some tests are making real API calls, that's why running the tests can take half a minute. More details

We use codecov to calculate the coverage ratio. You can see it in the codecov badge on the repository page or check out the details on codecov.io

File overview: Configuration and main entry scripts

autotranslate.py : Create a first translation draft by using automated translation by DeepL or Google translation. Introduction for users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czsqgA6Ua7s

config.example.ini : Example for all configuration settings.

config.ini : Not in repository, needs to be created by you. This is where you set up your configuration for each script, e.g.: Which system should it connect to? 4training.net || test.4training.net || localhost:8082 Which username should it use?

correct_bot.py : Automatically correct simple mistakes in texts of different languages.

resources_bot.py : Automatically scan through all available translations, gather information on each language and do many useful things with this information. Such as filling out the “Available training resources in...” for each language and exporting the worksheets into HTML

translateodt.py : Processes an English ODT file and replaces it with the translation into another language. Introduction for users: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9lZbLaXma0

pywikitools/fortraininglib.py : Our central library with important functions and API calls.

More tools

downloadalltranslations.py : Download all translated worksheets of a given language.

dropboxupload.py : Upload files into dropbox.

mediawiki2drupal.py : Export content from mediawiki into Drupal.

License

Jesus says in Matthew 10:8, “Freely you have received; freely give.”

We follow His example and believe His principles are well expressed in the developer world through free and open-source software. That's why we want you to have the four freedoms to freely use, study, share, and improve this software. We only require you to release any derived work under the same conditions (you're not allowed to take this code, build upon it, and make the result proprietary): GNU General Public License (Version 3)

Contributing and coding conventions

By contributing you release your contributed code under the licensing terms explained above. Thank you! For more details, see CONTRIBUTING.md

Communication

Please subscribe to the repository to get informed on changes. We use GitHub issues for specific tasks, wishes, bugs, etc. Please don’t hesitate to open a new one! Assign yourself to the issues that you plan to work on.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.