Pywikibot

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*4 February 2018*

* Deprecation warning: support for py2.6 and py3.3 will be dropped
* Changed requirements for cryprography, Pillow and pyOpenSSL
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*8 January 2018*

* Maintenance script to download Wikimedia database dump
* Option to auto-create accounts when logging in
* Ship wikimania family file
* Drop battlestarwiki family file
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*12 December 2017*

* Introduce userscripts directory
* Generator settings inside (user-)fixes.py
* BaseUnlinkBot has become part of the framework in specialbots.py
* Decommission of rcstream
* Script files added to https://doc.wikimedia.org/pywikibot/
* Other documentation updates
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*1 August 2017*

* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

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*13 July 2017*

* Deprecate APISite.newfiles()
* Inverse of pagegenerators -namespace option
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates
* CODE_OF_CONDUCT included

**Bugfixes**

* Manage temporary readonly error (:phab:`T154011`)
* Unbreak wbGeoShape and WbTabularData (:phab:`T166362`)
* Clean up issue with _WbDataPage (:phab:`T166362`)
* Re-enable xml for WikiStats with py2 (:phab:`T165830`)
* Solve httplib.IncompleteRead exception in eventstreams (:phab:`T168535`)
* Only force input_choice if self.always is given (:phab:`T161483`)
* Add colon when replacing category and file weblink (:phab:`T127745`)
* API Request: set uiprop only when ensuring 'userinfo' in meta (:phab:`T169202`)

**Improvements**

* Introduce the new WbUnknown data type for Wikibase (:phab:`T165961`)
* djvu.py: add replace_page() and delete_page()
* Build GeoShape and TabularData from shared base class
* Remove non-breaking spaces when tidying up a link (:phab:`T130818`)
* Replace private mylang variables with mycode in generate_user_files.py
* FilePage: remove deprecated use of fileUrl
* Make socket_timeout recalculation reusable (:phab:`T166539`)
* FilePage.download(): add revision parameter to download arbitrary revision (:phab:`T166939`)
* Make pywikibot.Error more precise (:phab:`T166982`)
* Implement pywikibot support for adding thanks to normal revisions (:phab:`T135409`)
* Implement server side event client EventStreams (:phab:`T158943`)
* new pagegenerators filter option -titleregexnot
* Add exception for -namespace option (:phab:`T167580`)
* InteractiveReplace: Allow no replacements by default
* Encode default globe in family file
* Add on to pywikibot support for thanking normal revisions (:phab:`T135409`)
* Add log entry code for thanks log (:phab:`T135413`)
* Create superclass for log entries with user targets
* Use relative reference to class attribute
* Allow pywikibot to authenticate against a private wiki (:phab:`T153903`)
* Make WbRepresentations hashable (:phab:`T167827`)

**Updates**

* Update linktails
* Update languages_by_size
* Update cross_allowed (global bot wikis group)
* Add atjwiki to wikipedia family file (:phab:`T168049`)
* remove closed sites from languages_by_size list
* Update category_redirect_templates for wikipedia and commons Family
* Update logevent type parameter list
* Disable cleanUpSectionHeaders on jbo.wiktionary (:phab:`T168399`)
* Add kbpwiki to wikipedia family file (:phab:`T169216`)
* Remove anarchopedia family out of the framework (:phab:`T167534`)

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*21 May 2017*

* Support for Python 2.6 but higher releases are strictly recommended
* Bugfixes and improvements
* Localisation updates

**Bugfixes**

* Increase the default socket_timeout to 75 seconds (:phab:`T163635`)
* use repr() of exceptions to prevent UnicodeDecodeErrors (:phab:`T120222`)
* Handle offset mismatches during chunked upload (:phab:`T156402`)
* Correct _wbtypes equality comparison (:phab:`T160282`)
* Re-enable getFileVersionHistoryTable() method (:phab:`T162528`)
* Replaced the word 'async' with 'asynchronous' due to py3.7 (:phab:`T106230`)
* Raise ImportError if no editor is available (:phab:`T163632`)
* templatesWithParams: cache and standardise params (:phab:`T113892`)
* getInternetArchiveURL: Retry http.fetch if there is a ConnectionError (:phab:`T164208`)
* Remove wikidataquery from pywikibot (:phab:`T162585`)

**Improvements**

* Introduce user_add_claim and allow asynchronous ItemPage.addClaim (:phab:`T87493`)
* Enable private edit summary in specialbots (:phab:`T162527`)
* Make a decorator for asynchronous methods
* Provide options by a separate handler class
* Show a warning when a LogEntry type is not known (:phab:`T135505`)
* Add Wikibase Client extension requirement to APISite.unconnectedpages()
* Update content after editing entity
* Make WbTime from Timestamp and vice versa (:phab:`T131624`)
* Add support for geo-shape Wikibase data type (:phab:`T161726`)
* Add async parameter to ItemPage.editEntity (:phab:`T86074`)
* Make sparql use Site to access sparql endpoint and entity_url (:phab:`T159956`)
* timestripper: search wikilinks to reduce false matches
* Set Coordinate globe via item
* use extract_templates_and_params_regex_simple for template validation
* Add _items for WbMonolingualText
* Allow date-versioned pypi releases from setup.py (:phab:`T152907`)
* Provide site to WbTime via WbTime.fromWikibase
* Provide preloading via GeneratorFactory.getCombinedGenerator() (:phab:`T135331`)
* Accept QuitKeyboardInterrupt in specialbots.Uploadbot (:phab:`T163970`)
* Remove unnecessary description change message when uploading a file (:phab:`T163108`)
* Add 'OptionHandler' to bot.__all__ tuple
* Use FilePage.upload inside UploadRobot
* Add support for tabular-data Wikibase data type (:phab:`T163981`)
* Get thumburl information in FilePage() (:phab:`T137011`)

**Updates**

* Update languages_by_size in family files
* wikisource_family.py: Add "pa" to languages_by_size
* Config2: limit the number of retries to 15 (:phab:`T165898`)