Lingua Libre Bot

This is the source code of Lingua Libre Bot, whose goal is to ease the reuse of all the records made on Lingua Libre on as much wikis as possible.

Wikimedia projects

Lingua Libre Bot is able to contribute on the following Wikimedia projects:

• Wikidata
• Wikidata Lexemes
• French Wiktionary
• Kurdish Wiktionary
• Occitan Wiktionary
• Shawiya Wiktionary

Operational documentation

Dependencies

Lingua Libre Bot requires Python 3.6 to work, and the following packages in their latest version:

• wikitextparser
• requests
• argparse
• uuid
• backoff

Installation

Install the aforementioned packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Copy the configuration file and edit it with your information:

cp config.ini.sample config.ini
vi config.ini

Usage

usage: llbot.py {simple, live} [-h] [--dryrun] [--wiki WIKI]

Reuse records made on Lingua Libre on some wikis.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --dryrun              run without applying any changes to the wiki
  --wiki {wikidatawiki,frwiktionary}
                        run only on the selected wiki
  
simple mode
  --item ITEM           run only on the given lingualibre item
  --startdate STARTDATE from which timestamp to start
  --enddate ENDDATE     at which timestamp to end
  --user USER           run only on records from the given user
  --lang LANG           run only on records from the given language,
                        identified by its lingua libre qid
  --langiso LANGISO     run only on records from the given language,
                        identified by its iso 693-3 code
  --langwm LANGWM       run only on records from the given language,
                        identified by its wikimedia language code
  
live mode
  --delay DELAY         duration in seconds to wait between
                        2 recent changes check (default: 10 s)
  --backcheck BACKCHECK check at launch recent changes in the 
                        last BACKCHECK seconds (default: 0)
                        

Preferred date format

%Y-%m-%dT01:00:00.000+00:00

If you need to automate the bot running a few times a week, you can use the following Linux command :

> date -d "-2 days" +'%Y-%m-%dT01:00:00.000+00:00'
2021-06-30T01:00:00.000+00:00