Module Hierarchy

• pywikipedia: The Python Wikipedia Robot Framework is a set of bots to do things on Wikipedia or other Mediawiki projects.
  • brackethttp: Script to correct URLs like (http://www.example.org) to [http://www.example.org example.org] to have correct generation of links in Wikipedia
  • catall: Add or change categories on a number of pages.
  • category: Scripts to manage categories.
  • catlib: Library to work with category pages on Wikipedia
  • check_extern: This bot is used for checking external links from Wikipedia.
  • config
  • copy_table: Script to copy a table from one Wikipedia to another one, translating it on-the-fly.
  • date: This file is not runnable, but it only consists of various lists which are required by some other programs.
  • editarticle
  • extract_names: Script to extract all wiki page names a certain HTML file points to
  • extract_wikilinks: Script to extract all wiki page names a certain HTML file points to in interwiki-link format The output can be used as input to interwiki.py.
  • family
  • find: This bot seeks of information.
  • followlive
  • getimages: Script to transfer many images from one wiki to another.
  • gui: A window with a unicode textfield where the user can e.g.
  • imageharvest: Bot for getting multiple images from an external site.
  • imagetransfer: Script to find images on a subject on another wikipedia and copy them to WikiCommons.
  • interwiki: Script to check language links for general pages.
  • lib_images: Library with functions needed for image treatment
  • login: Script to log the robot in to a wikipedia account.
  • makecat: This bot takes as its argument (or, if no argument is given, asks for it), the name of a new or existing category.
  • mediawiki_messages: Allows access to the MediaWiki messages, that's the label texts of the MediaWiki software in the current language.
  • pagefromfile: This bot takes its input from a file that contains a number of pages to be put on the wiki.
  • pagegenerators
  • redirect: Script to resolve double redirects, and to delete broken redirects.
  • replace: This bot will make direct text replacements.
  • saveHTML: This bot downloads the HTML-pages of articles and images and saves the interesting parts, i.e.
  • solve_disambiguation: Script to help a human solve disambiguations by presenting a set of options.
  • spellcheck: This bot spellchecks Wikipedia pages.
  • splitwarning: Splits a interwiki.log file into chunks of warnings separated by language
  • sqldump: Reads a cur SQL dump and offers a generator over SQLentry objects which can be used by other bots.
  • standardize_interwiki: Loop over all pages in the home wiki, standardizing the interwiki links.
  • table2wiki: Nifty script to convert HTML-tables to Wikipedia's syntax.
  • template: Very simple script to replace a template with another one, and to convert the old MediaWiki boilerplate format to the new template format.
  • titletranslate
  • touch: This bot goes over multiple pages of the home wiki, and edits them without changing.
  • translator: This module translates a string from one language to another, using translations given in a hard-coded dictionary.
  • upload: Script to upload images to wikipedia.
  • vertexgen
  • warnfile: A robot to implement backlinks from a interwiki.log file without checking them against the live wikipedia.
  • watchlist: Allows access to the bot account's watchlist.
  • WdT: This bot consists of WdT.py and WdTXMLpaser.py and imports XML-files into Wikipedia.
  • WdTXMLParser
  • weblinkchecker: This bot is used for checking external links found at the wiki.
  • wikipedia: Library to get and put pages on a MediaWiki.
  • wiktionary
  • windows_chars: Script to replace bad Windows-1252 (cp1252) characters with HTML entities on ISO 8859-1 wikis.

Class Hierarchy

• __builtin__.object: The most base type
  • pywikipedia.catlib.CatTitleRecognition: Special object to recognize categories in a certain language.
  • pywikipedia.followlive.CleaningBot
  • pywikipedia.editarticle.EditArticle
  • pywikipedia.date.FormatDate
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.GetAll
  • pywikipedia.interwiki.Global: Container class for global settings.
  • pywikipedia.translator.Global
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.Page: A page on the wiki.
    • pywikipedia.catlib._Category: Subclass of Page that has some special tricks that only work for category: pages
  • pywikipedia.followlive.PageHandler
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.Site
  • pywikipedia.spellcheck.SpecialTerm
  • pywikipedia.sqldump.SQLdump
  • pywikipedia.sqldump.SQLentry: Represents a wiki page, read from an SQL dump.
  • pywikipedia.interwiki.Subject: Class to follow the progress of a single 'subject' (i.e.
  • pywikipedia.interwiki.SubjectArray: A class keeping track of a list of subjects, controlling which pages are queried from which languages when.
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.Throttle
  • __builtin__.type: type(object) -> the object's type type(name, bases, dict) -> a new type
  • pywikipedia.spellcheck.Word
  • threading._Verbose
    • threading.Thread
      • pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.LinkCheckThread: A thread responsible for checking one page.
• exceptions.Exception: Common base class for all exceptions.
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.Error: Wikipedia error
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.EditConflict: There has been an edit conflict while uploading the page
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.IsNotRedirectPage: Wikipedia page is not a redirect page
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.IsRedirectPage: Wikipedia page is a redirect page
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.LockedPage: Wikipedia page is locked
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.NoNamespace: Wikipedia page is not in a special namespace
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.NoPage: Wikipedia page does not exist
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.NotLoggedIn: Anonymous editing Wikipedia is not possible
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.PageNotFound: Page not found in list
  • exceptions.StandardError: Base class for all standard Python exceptions.
    • exceptions.LookupError: Base class for lookup errors.
      • pywikipedia.wikipedia.PageInList: Trying to add page to list that is already included
    • exceptions.ValueError: Inappropriate argument value (of correct type).
      • pywikipedia.wikipedia.NoSuchEntity: No entity exist for this character
      • pywikipedia.wikipedia.SectionError: The section specified by # does not exist
• pywikipedia.category.CategoryDatabase: This is a temporary knowledge base saving for each category the contained subcategories and articles, so that category pages don't need to be loaded over and over again
• pywikipedia.category.CategoryMoveRobot
• pywikipedia.category.CategoryRemoveRobot: Removes the category tag from all pages in a given category and from the category pages of all subcategories, without prompting.
• pywikipedia.category.CategoryTidyRobot: Script to help a human to tidy up a category by moving its articles into subcategories Specify the category name on the command line.
• pywikipedia.category.CategoryTreeRobot: Robot to create tree overviews of the category structure.
• pywikipedia.family.Family
• pywikipedia.find.FindPages
• pywikipedia.find.ReadPages
• pywikipedia.gui.EditBoxWindow
• pywikipedia.gui.ListBoxWindow
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.AllpagesPageGenerator: Using the Allpages special page, retrieves all articles, loads them (60 at a time) using XML export, and yields title/text pairs.
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.CategorizedPageGenerator: Yields all pages in a specific category.
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.LinkedPageGenerator: Yields all pages linked from a specific page.
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.PreloadingGenerator: Wraps around another generator.
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.ReferringPageGenerator: Yields all pages referring to a specific page.
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.SinglePageGenerator: Pseudo-generator
• pywikipedia.pagegenerators.TextfilePageGenerator: Read a file of page links between double-square-brackets, and return them as a list of Page objects.
• pywikipedia.redirect.RedirectGenerator
• pywikipedia.redirect.RedirectRobot
• pywikipedia.replace.ReplacePageGenerator: Generator which will yield Pages for pages that might contain text to replace.
• pywikipedia.replace.ReplaceRobot
• pywikipedia.solve_disambiguation.DisambiguationRobot
• pywikipedia.solve_disambiguation.PrimaryIgnoreManager: If run with the -primary argument, reads from a file which pages should not be worked on; these are the ones where the user pressed n last time.
• pywikipedia.solve_disambiguation.ReferringPageGenerator
• pywikipedia.table2wiki.Table2WikiRobot
• pywikipedia.table2wiki.TableSqlDumpGenerator
• pywikipedia.template.SqlTemplatePageGenerator
• pywikipedia.template.TemplateRobot
• pywikipedia.touch.TouchBot
• pywikipedia.upload.UploadRobot
• pywikipedia.warnfile.WarnfileReader
• pywikipedia.warnfile.WarnfileRobot
• pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.AllpagesPageContentGenerator
• pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.History: Stores previously found dead links.
• pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.LinkChecker: Given a HTTP URL, tries to load the page from the Internet and checks if it is still online.
• pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.SinglePageContentGenerator: Pseudo-generator
• pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.SqlPageContentGenerator: Using an SQL dump file, retrieves all pages that are not redirects (doesn't load them from the live wiki), and yields title/text pairs.
• pywikipedia.weblinkchecker.WeblinkCheckerRobot: Robot which will use several LinkCheckThreads at once to search for dead weblinks on pages provided by the given generator.
• pywikipedia.wiktionary.Entry: This class contains the entries that belong together on one page.
• pywikipedia.wiktionary.Header
• pywikipedia.wiktionary.Meaning: This class contains one meaning for a word or an expression.
• pywikipedia.wiktionary.Term: This is a superclass for terms.
  • pywikipedia.wiktionary.Adjective
  • pywikipedia.wiktionary.Noun: This is class inherits from Term.
• pywikipedia.wiktionary.WiktionaryPage: This class contains all that can appear on one Wiktionary page
• pywikipedia.wiktionary.sortonname
• pywikipedia.windows_chars.SqlWindows1252PageGenerator: opens a local SQL dump file, searches for pages with Windows-1252 characters.
• pywikipedia.windows_chars.WindowsCharsBot
• urllib.URLopener: Class to open URLs.
  • urllib.FancyURLopener: Derived class with handlers for errors we can handle (perhaps).
    • pywikipedia.wikipedia.MyURLopener
    • pywikipedia.check_extern.URLerrorFinder
• xml.sax.handler.ContentHandler: Interface for receiving logical document content events.
  • pywikipedia.WdTXMLParser.WdTXMLParser
  • pywikipedia.wikipedia.WikimediaXmlHandler