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Subject:    Re: [pywikibot] [Pywikipedia-announce] Login broken for bots
From:       Yusuke Matsubara <whym () whym ! org>
Date:       2016-08-07 12:30:12
Message-ID: CAEhMCHSvw9KedLYSPjBgGHNNongAZr_KhiyftT6juPtbYPaSuw () mail ! gmail ! com
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I just read it was discussed at
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142269 and documented in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/OAuth/Wikimedia in the
last day. I guess I should have followed links more closely.

> I don't know if, when using OAuth, the usernames['project']['lang'] =
> u'BotName' should still be used though, but that's the only way I
> could manage to log in.

This is also what I do. It is convenient for me because I can choose a
few wiktionaries that I want to log in while giving a blanket
authentication with "authenticate[*.wiktionary.org]".

-Yusuke

On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 9:21 PM, MarcoAurelio <strigiwm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Yusuke,
>
> Thank you for your email.
>
> Everything you mention is already done. I've managed to log-in adding
> to the user-config.py the former usernames['project']['lang'] =
> u'BotName', in addition to the authenticate ['*.wikimedia.org'] =
> ('keys here').
>
> I don't know if, when using OAuth, the usernames['project']['lang'] =
> u'BotName' should still be used though, but that's the only way I
> could manage to log in.
>
> Best regards, M.
>
> 2016-08-07 14:17 GMT+02:00 Yusuke Matsubara <whym@whym.org>:
>>> I've tried to log in using OAuth, unsuccessfuly.
>>
>> At which step does it fail? Any error message?
>>
>> I have been using OAuth for months. Initial pitfalls for me were:
>>
>> * Make sure being logged into your bot account in the browser when
>> performing OAuth registration.
>> * Before trying to log in with OAuth, bot needs to be logged out. Use
>> "pwb.py login -logout", or perhaps clear cache files under .pywikibot
>> (but be careful to not delete config files).
>> * You will need to check "This consumer is for use only by <your
>> name>." on Special:OAuthConsumerRegistration/propose.
>> * You will also need to check relevant items under "Applicable grants:"
>>
>> (Context for others: OAuth login seems to work as a workaround for
>> this login breakage.)
>>
>> -Yusuke
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 9:05 PM, MarcoAurelio <strigiwm@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've tried to log in using OAuth, unsuccessfuly. I've followed all the
>>> steps of the on-wiki documentation and have indeed the latests release
>>> of pywikibot-core. Any hints? Thanks, M.
>>>
>>> 2016-08-06 9:38 GMT+02:00 Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com>:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Please review/test/merge <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/303342>.
>>>>
>>>> I am afk most of tomorrow, so if someone else wants to handle
>>>> backporting it to 2.0 and releasing it, that would be appreciated,
>>>> otherwise I'll do it once I'm back. I don't believe I have permissions
>>>> to push it to pypi though.
>>>>
>>>> -- Legoktm
>>>>
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