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Bot delinks images, but with the help of replacer.py, it can also replace images.

Preamble edit

This delinker bot was originally made such that images that were stored on a global image repository (Wikimedia Commons) were delinked from local dependent wikis when they were deleted from the global repository.

The first script was written and run by Orgullomoore. It was later maintained by Siebrand. This version is the result of a total rewrite by Bryan and is currently run by Siebrand. I want to thank them both for their contributions; without them this would have been impossible, or at least very hard.

Introduction edit

The delinker bot is both a delinker and a replacer bot. On its own it is only able to delink images, but with the help of replacer.py, it can also replace images. It has both a global and local mode. In global mode, it will read the deletion log from the shared image repository, and delink on that and local wikis. In local mode, it will read a local deletion log and also delink locally only.

Do not run the bot on Commons without consulting Siebrand or Bryan. Running multiple instances will not only mess everything up, but also causes the CommonsTicker to no longer work correctly. Thank you.

Non Wikimedia wikis are currently unsupported. This is due to a flaw in CheckUsage. (To be precise: it won't work for wikis that don't have /w/api.php on that location.)

Program flow edit

Delinker edit

The bot reads the deletion log in a specified interval. The images that would be eligible for delink, are passed to the CheckUsages threads. They will check where to delink images from. For global delink, direct access to the databases is required. Local delink will do without. This information is then passed to the Delinker instances who will do the actual delinking.

Replacer edit

A separate script is run, which reads commands that sysops can give by adding a command in the form of {{replace image|oldimg|newimg|reason=reason}}. It optionally will also clean up this list. The replacements are then saved to a database. The delinker.py script will read out this, and pass the images to the CheckUsages instances, from which onwards the process is the same as above.

Both bots allow the use of on-wiki summary templates. Refer to m:User:CommonsDelinker for information on the syntax.

Requirements edit

  • A recent SVN checkout of the pywikipedia framework
  • Python 2.4 or higher
  • A MySQL database and the MySQLdb api for Python, version 1.2.1_p or higher
    • In the future, probably also sqlite3 will be supported.

Configuration edit

The delinker bot is dependent on a great number of configuration variables. To run it, change them according to your needs and save them in user-config.py. See below for an example configuration file.

Pywikipedia variables edit

Set the variables mylang and family to the appropriate language and family. Also setup the usernames[][] variables.

Delinker variables edit

Due to historical reasons, the configuration variable is called CommonsDelinker. First setup the dictionary CommonsDelinker, by adding to the config: CommonsDelinker = {}

General settings edit

  • timeout = 60: A general timeout, used for fetching the log and other

timeouts. Set to 60 for medium sized wikis, such as English Wikipedia, and 60-120 for smaller wikis such as German Wikipedia. Note that during the timeout no more than 500 deletions may occur.

  • checkusage_instances = 3, delinker_instances = 5,

logger_instances = 2: number of threads to spawn. The default values are appropriate for most wikis.

  • delink_namespaces = range(1000): Tuple or list of namespaces to delink

from. Set to range(1000)[::2] to disable delinking from talk pages.

  • local_settings = User:CommonsDelinker/: Prefix for on-wiki settings.

Currently supported: summary-I18n for the delink summary and replace-I18n for the replace summary.

  • Default settings:
default_settings = {\
	"summary-I18n": "The file [[:Image:$1]] has been removed, as it \
		has been deleted by [[User:$2]]: ''$3''.",
	"replace-I18n": "The file [[:Image:$1]] has been replaced by \
		[[:Image:$2]] by administrator [[User:$3]]: ''$4''."''
  }: Default settings, in case no on-wiki settings are found. For the meaning
of the variables, please refer to [[m:User:CommonsDelinker]].
  • global = False: Set global or local delink. DO NOT RUN THIS BOT GLOBALLY WITHOUT CONSULTING BRYAN AND SIEBRAND. Thank you.
  • no_sysop = True: Disable delinking as sysop.

Delinker settings edit

Those variables only need to be set if the delinker is enabled.

  • delink_wait = 600: The time to wait after deletion before the image is delinked. (It is important not to set this too low. During this time a sysop may undelete a deletion that was per mistake or for maintenance - to avoid those temporary deletions causing a delink the script will not delink if it was undeleted within this number of seconds)
  • exclude_string = "no-delink": If this string is included in the deletion summary, the file is not delinked.
  • summary_cache = 3600: Time before on-wiki settings are updated.

Replacer settings edit

Those variables only need to be set if the replacer is enabled.

  • replace_template = "replace image": The template for to command replacement.
  • command_page = "User:CommonsDelinker/commands": The page where sysops can give the bot commands.
  • clean_list = False: Auto clean the list. Only use this if the bot actually has edit permissions to the list.
  • disallowed_replacements = [(r'\.png$', r'\.svg$')]: List of regular expressions of refused replacements.

SQL settings edit

  • sql_engine = "mysql": Database engine to use. Currently supported: MySQL. Support for sqlite3 is planned. The Global delinker requires MySQL.
sql_config = {\
	'host': 'localhost',
	'user': "",
	'passwd': "",
  }

: The configuration variables to be passed to the connect method of the database engine. Please refer to your database api manual for a full overview of the options.

  • log_table = "database.delinker": The database.table to log to.
  • replacer_table = "database.replacer": The database.table for the replacer. Only required if the replacer is activated.

SQL table layout edit

CREATE TABLE delinker ( timestamp CHAR(14), img VARBINARY(255), wiki VARBINARY(255), page_title VARBINARY(255), namespace INT, status ENUM('ok', 'skipped', 'failed'), newimg VARBINARY(255) ); CREATE TABLE replacer ( id INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, timestamp VARBINARY(14), old_image VARBINARY(255), new_image VARBINARY(255), status ENUM('pending', 'ok', 'refused', 'done'), user VARBINARY(255), comment VARBINARY(255),

PRIMARY KEY(id), INDEX(status) );

Edit and debugging settings edit

  • save_diff = False: Save all changes to a diff. Create a directory diff/ before running.
  • edit = True: Actually edit to the wiki.
  • enable_delinker = True: Enable the delinker.
  • enable_replacer = True: Enable the replacer.
  • single_process_replacer = False: Start the replacer-reader and the replacer in one process. This is currently not yet supported.

Licensing edit

The file delinker.py is copyrighted © 2006 - 2007 Orgullomoore, © 2007 Siebrand Mazeland, © 2007 Bryan Tong Minh. The file replacer.py is copyrighted © 2007 Bryan Tong Minh. This documentation is © 2007 Bryan Tong Minh. Those files are licensed under the terms of the MIT license (more specifically, the Expat license) below: 

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
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copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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The most recent version of this documentation can be found in the pywikipedia CVS, on <http://pywikipediabot.cvs.sourceforge.net/ pywikipediabot/pywikipedia/delinker.txt?view=markup>. Copies maybe found on meta <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ CommonsDelinker/For_operators> and BotWiki <http://botwiki.sno.cc/wiki/Python:CommonsDelinker/For_operators>.

Example configuration file edit 

# Defining a new configuration variable for delinker.py and replace.py
CommonsDelinker = {}

## General settings
mylang = 'commons'
family = 'commons'

# General timeout, used for fetching the deletion log and other timeouts.
CommonsDelinker['timeout'] = 30
# Number of threads to spawn. checkusage_instances + logger_instances may never
# exceed the number of allowed MySQL connections.
CommonsDelinker['checkusage_instances'] = 3
CommonsDelinker['delinker_instances'] = 5
# Keep this at least at 2 to have a fall back in case one logger dies.
CommonsDelinker['logger_instances'] = 2
# Tuple or list of namespaces to delink from
CommonsDelinker['delink_namespaces'] = range(1000)
# Set this to true if you are running CommonsDelinker
CommonsDelinker['global'] = False
# Force not to login as sysop
CommonsDelinker['no_sysop'] = True
# Prefix for localized settings.
CommonsDelinker['local_settings'] = 'User:CommonsDelinker/'
CommonsDelinker['default_settings'] = {\
	'summary-I18n': "The file [[:Image:$1]] has been removed, as it has been deleted by [[User:$2]]: ''$3''.",
	'replace-I18n': "The file [[:Image:$1]] has been replaced by [[:Image:$2]] by administrator [[User:$3]]: ''$4''."
}

## Delinker settings
# Gives admins the chance to manually delink the image. Default: 10 minutes.
CommonsDelinker['delink_wait'] = 600
# Images with this exclusion string in the deletion comment will not be delinked.
CommonsDelinker['exclude_string'] = 'no-delink'
# Time before a new summary is fetched.
CommonsDelinker['summary_cache'] = 3600

## Replacer settings
# Default delink and replace summary.
CommonsDelinker['replace_template'] = 'replace image'
CommonsDelinker['command_page'] = 'User:CommonsDelinker/commands'
# Auto clean the list. Only use this if the bot actually 
# has edit permissions to the list.
CommonsDelinker['clean_list'] = False
CommonsDelinker['disallowed_replacements'] = [(r'\.png$', r'\.svg$')]

## SQL connection information.
# Database engine to use. Currently supported: MySQL, sqlite3.
# Global delinker requires MySQL.
CommonsDelinker['sql_engine'] = 'mysql'
CommonsDelinker['sql_config'] = {\
	'host': 'localhost',
	'user': '',
	'passwd': '',
}
# database.table to use for logging and replacing.
CommonsDelinker['log_table'] = 'database.delinker'
CommonsDelinker['replacer_table'] = 'database.replacer'

## Edit and debug settings
# Enable the monitor.
CommonsDelinker['monitor'] = False
# Save the changes to a diff.
CommonsDelinker['save_diff'] = False
# Save the changes to the wiki.
CommonsDelinker['edit'] = True
# Enable the delinker.
CommonsDelinker['enable_delinker'] = True
# Enable the replacer.
CommonsDelinker['enable_replacer'] = True
# Start the replacer-reader and the replacer in one process.
CommonsDelinker['single_process_replacer'] = False
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