Google Code-in

Pywikibot is a Python-based framework to write bots for MediaWiki (more information).

Thanks to work in Google Code-in, Pywikibot now has a script called download_dump.py. It downloads a Wikimedia database dump from http://dumps.wikimedia.org/ , and places the dump in a predicable directory for semi-automated use by other scripts and tests.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/399179/7/scripts/maintenance/download_dump.py@71

We shouldn't use copyfile for Toolforge users, but create a symlink to the file that already exists.

You are expected to provide a patch in Wikimedia Gerrit. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial for how to set up Git and Gerrit.