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Pywikibot: Implement action=mergehistory support

A MediaWiki action API endpoint to merge the history of two pages is proposed, coded, but not yet merged. A Python wrapper around this API action needs to be created.

See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123198

Pywikibot is a Python-based framework to write bots for MediaWiki. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot for more information. Patches can be submitted via Gerrit (you need a MediaWiki.org account). See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Gerrit. After you have successfully claimed this task on this site please do use the task in Phabricator for communication instead. This allows more PWB developers to be reached! General development questions can be asked on the Pywikibot mailing list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l and the #pywikibot IRC channel (see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_on_IRC ).

Task tags

  • python
  • mediawiki
  • pywikibot

Students who completed this task

Geoffrey Mon

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  • code Code
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2015