Manual:Pywikibot/Use on third-party wikis

The pywikipedia bot may be used to do all kind of things that are important for the maintenance of a mediawiki project. When this software is to be used outside of the wikimedia projects, some configuration needs to be done.

Example
The meta_family.py is the "family" definition for a project that is internally only one database. Therefore it is most likely the one to copy for an external project. The name of the new file must be "YourProject"_family.py where "YourProject" is the name of your project. When you open this file with a text-editor, there are a few things you need to change:


 * name = 'meta'
 * 'meta' must be "YourProject" and must be the same as the language you indicate in user-config.py.


 * self._addlang('meta',
 * 'meta' must be the same as the language you indicate in user-config.py.


 * location = 'meta.wikimedia.org',
 * meta.wikimedia.org must be the URL that is used for your project.


 * namespaces = { 4: u'Meta',
 * 'Meta' is the namespace of your project typically it is the name of your project


 * 5: u'Meta talk' })
 * 'Meta talk' is the name of the talk namespace indicated in the previous point.

see myproject_family.py for another example...

Wikitravel

 * For the Wikitravel projects (non wikimedia projects) there is already a family created. It is an example with a different way of naming projects.