Manual:Pywikibot/Development

How to report a bug
We recommend that you test if the bug is still present in the latest available revision, as stored in Git. If the problem still persist, when you report a bug, please try to include:


 * A nice task title
 * A full description of the problem/report.
 * Explain the difference between expected output and real output
 * How to reproduce the bug, with full information (script, command line, family, and language used).
 * The console output provided by the script (included the Python traceback if you are reporting a crash).
 * Post the output of

To submit a new bug, visit the bug tracker. You may check existing bug reports here.

Development
If you have thought of a function you want to have, and none of the bots provides it yet, you can ask one of the programmers to write it for you. Or even better, you can try to work on the bots yourself. Python is a nice language, and not hard to learn. We will welcome you.

Commit access
Anyone can get a Developer account. Once you've registered, if you're interested in working on pywikibot, please email the mailing list and introduce yourself and mention what you'd like to work on, so other people can greet you.

How to submit patches
Configure Git and Gerrit. Follow steps in Gerrit/Getting started and run this: and after modifying the code, follow the steps in Gerrit/Tutorial.

Guidelines
See the general Python coding conventions and the Pywikibot development guidelines.

Documentation
This is the user and developer manual, as can be found on Manual:Pywikibot, please help keeping it updated.

The code itself is partly documented. You can find them, e.g. at: as well as unit test code coverage reports at:
 * Documentation
 * Test coverage (see also T74863)

Bot & Proxy
Use requests environment variables. See T111752.

Debugging network issues
See Pywikibot/mitmproxy for tips.