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Installing Pywikibot

I have the pywikibot software set up with two remotes: one official (Wikimedia gerrit), and one unofficial (my own git repo).

Link to pywikibot on Wikimedia Foundation's gerrit: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git

Link to pywikibot on git.charlesreid1.com: https://charlesreid1.com:3000/wiki/pywikibot

Wikimedia gerrit

Note the official pywikibot repo is also cloned on Github: https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/

Start by checking it out:

$ git clone https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git pywikibot
$ cd pywikibot

Install all the pip stuff that you may need:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Update git submodules:

$ git submodule update --init

Set up a family file

Add a custom family file to the big directory of family files:

$ ls pywikibot/families
...
wikivoyage_family.py
wiktionary_family.py
wowwiki_family.py

This is where you will put your custom family file. Here's what the custom family file looks like:

from pywikibot import family

class Family(family.Family):
    def __init__(self):
        family.Family.__init__(self)
        self.name = 'charlesreid1'
        self.langs = {
            'en': 'charlesreid1.com',
        }

Copy and paste this into pwb/pywikibot/families/charlesreid1_family.py (where pwb is the name of the directory where you checked out the git repository).

NOTE: The family file name MUST end with _family or it will not get picked up by the login script.

Now you should be able to log into the wiki as your bot:

$ python pwb.py login
Password for user Bleep bloop on charlesreid1:en (no characters will be shown):

Logging in to charlesreid1:en as Bleep bloop
WARNING: /Users/charles/codes/pywikibot/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py:1717: UserWarning: File /Users/charles/codes/pywikibot/pywikibot.lwp had 644 mode; converted to 600 mode.
Logged in on charlesreid1:en as Bleep bloop.

git.charlesreid1.com

Link to pywikibot on git.charlesreid1.com: https://charlesreid1.com:3000/wiki/pywikibot

To push changes to the pywikibot on git.charlesreid1.com I set up the repo with another remote:

$ git remote add cmr https://charlesreid1.com:3000/wiki/pywikibot
$ git push cmr master

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 $ git submodule update --init
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+==Set up a family file==
 Add a custom family file to the big directory of family files:
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 Copy and paste this into <code>pwb/pywikibot/families/charlesreid1_family.py</code> (where pwb is the name of the directory where you checked out the git repository).
+NOTE: The family file name MUST end with <code>_family</code> or it will not get picked up by the login script.
 Now you should be able to log into the wiki as your bot: