Jul -- The Cutting Room Floor: HOW TO: install a bot to upload files to the wiki

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Posted on 09-21-10 01:04:43 PM

I know many of you have moaned about how Special:MultipleUpload no longer works and you have to upload every single file at once, which is very tedious.

However, it is possible to install a bot, which while intended for Wikipedia, works perfectly fine for this wiki too. You can use it to upload images in a much easier fashion, and, using batch scripts, to upload a bunch of them at once.

1. Download the latest python 2.x release from here (not 3.x!) and install it.
2. Download the PyWikipedia bot from here. It is a simple zip archive, so just extract it and here you go. I'm assuming from now on that you extracted the archive to C:\pywikipedia\.
3. The script won't be aware of this wiki. You'll need this file, copy and paste and save it as rustedlogic_family.py in the \families\ subfolder.



# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-


import family


# Cutting Room Floor


class Family(family.Family):

    def __init__(self):

        family.Family.__init__(self)


        self.name = 'rustedlogic'


        self.langs = {

                'en': 'wiki.rustedlogic.net',

        }

        self.namespaces[4] = {

            '_default': [u'The Cutting Room Floor', self.namespaces[4]['_default']],

        }

        self.namespaces[5] = {

            '_default': [u'The Cutting Room Floor talk', self.namespaces[5]['_default']],

        }


    def RversionTab(self, code):

        return r'<li\s*><a href=".*?title=.*?&action=history".*?>.*?</a></li>'


    def version(self, code):

        return "1.16.0"


    def scriptpath(self, code):

        return ''


    def apipath(self, code):

        return '/api.php'

4. Open a command-line window and navigate to the pywikipedia folder. (in this example case, you can do a simple cd \pywikipedia)
5. Run generate_user_files.py. It should be fairly straightforward, just enter the wiki name as "rustedlogic".
6. Run login.py to log in.

Once you have done these steps, you can upload files. The syntax to upload files is:

upload.py -keep -noverify "filename" "description"

If you have a folder full of files, you can also upload them all at once using a for loop. Navigate to the folder which contains the files and do:

for %i in (*.png) do c:\pywikipedia\upload.py -keep -noverify "%i" "{{screenshot|system=NES}}"

This should allow you to easily upload files in an effective manner.

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