Pywikibot

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*22 July 2019*

* Increase the throttling delay if maxlag >> retry-after (:phab:`T210606`)
* Add "user_agent_description" option in config.py
* APISite.fromDBName works for all known dbnames (:phab:`T225590`, 225723, 226960)
* remove the unimplemented "proxy" variable in config.py
* Make Family.langs property more robust (:phab:`T226934`)
* Remove strategy family
* Handle closed_wikis as read-only (:phab:`T74674`)
* TokenWallet: login automatically
* Add closed_wikis to Family.langs property (:phab:`T225413`)
* Redirect 'mo' site code to 'ro' and remove interwiki_replacement_overrides (:phab:`T225417`, :phab:`T89451`)
* Add support for badges on Wikibase item sitelinks through a SiteLink object instead plain str (:phab:`T128202`)
* Remove login.showCaptchaWindow() method
* New parameter supplied in suggest_help function for missing dependencies
* Remove NonMWAPISite class
* Introduce Claim.copy and prevent adding already saved claims (:phab:`T220131`)
* Fix create_short_link method after MediaWiki changes (:phab:`T223865`)
* Validate proofreadpage.IndexPage contents before saving it
* Refactor Link and introduce BaseLink (:phab:`T66457`)
* Count skipped pages in BaseBot class
* 'actionthrottledtext' is a retryable wikibase error (:phab:`T192912`)
* Clear tokens on logout(:phab:`T222508`)
* Deprecation warning: support for Python 2 will be dropped (:phab:`T213287`)
* botirc.IRCBot has been dropped
* Avoid using outdated browseragents (:phab:`T222959`)
* textlib: avoid infinite execution of regex (:phab:`T222671`)
* Add CSRF token in sitelogout() api call (:phab:`T222508`)
* Refactor WikibasePage.get and overriding methods and improve documentation
* Improve title patterns of WikibasePage extensions
* Add support for property creation (:phab:`T160402`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*30 April 2019*

* Unicode literals are required for all scripts; the usage of ASCII bytes may fail (:phab:`T219095`)
* Don't fail if the number of forms of a plural string is less than required (:phab:`T99057`, :phab:`T219097`)
* Implement create_short_link Page method to use Extension:UrlShortener (:phab:`T220876`)
* Remove wikia family file (:phab:`T220921`)
* Remove deprecated ez_setup.py
* Changed requirements for sseclient (:phab:`T219024`)
* Set optional parameter namespace to None in site.logpages (:phab:`T217664`)
* Add ability to display similar scripts when misspelled (:phab:`T217195`)
* Check if QueryGenerator supports namespaces (:phab:`T198452`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*1 March 2019*

* Fix version comparison (:phab:`T164163`)
* Remove pre MediaWiki 1.14 code
* Dropped support for Python 2.7.2 and 2.7.3 (:phab:`T191192`)
* Fix header regex beginning with a comment (:phab:`T209712`)
* Implement Claim.__eq__ (:phab:`T76615`)
* cleanup config2.py
* Add missing Wikibase API write actions
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*4 February 2019*

* Support python version 3.7
* pagegenerators.py: add -querypage parameter to yield pages provided by any special page (:phab:`T214234`)
* Fix comparison of str, bytes and int literal
* site.py: add generic self.querypage() to query SpecialPages
* echo.Notification has a new event_id property as integer
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*6 January 2019*

* Ensure "modules" parameter of ParamInfo._fetch is a set (:phab:`T122763`)
* Support adding new claims with qualifiers and/or references (:phab:`T112577`, :phab:`T170432`)
* Support LZMA and XZ compression formats
* Update correct-ar Typo corrections in fixes.py (:phab:`T211492`)
* Enable MediaWiki timestamp with EventStreams (:phab:`T212133`)
* Convert Timestamp.fromtimestampformat() if year, month and day are given only
* tools.concat_options is deprecated
* Additional ListOption subclasses ShowingListOption, MultipleChoiceList, ShowingMultipleChoiceList
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*3 December 2018*

* Remove compat module references from autogenerated docs (:phab:`T183085`)
* site.preloadpages: split pagelist in most max_ids elements (:phab:`T209111`)
* Disable empty sections in cosmetic_changes for user namespace
* Prevent touch from re-creating pages (:phab:`T193833`)
* New Page.title() parameter without_brackets; also used by titletranslate (:phab:`T200399`)
* Security: require requests version 2.20.0 or later (:phab:`T208296`)
* Check appropriate key in Site.messages (:phab:`T163661`)
* Make sure the cookie file is created with the right permissions (:phab:`T206387`)
* pydot >= 1.2 is required for interwiki_graph
* Move methods for simple claim adding/removing to WikibasePage (:phab:`T113131`)
* Enable start timestamp for EventStreams (:phab:`T205121`)
* Re-enable notifications (:phab:`T205184`)
* Use FutureWarning for warnings intended for end users (:phab:`T191192`)
* Provide new -wanted... page generators (:phab:`T56557`, :phab:`T150222`)
* api.QueryGenerator: Handle slots during initialization (:phab:`T200955`, :phab:`T205210`)
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates