For most Wikimedia projects, Pywikibot (formerly pywikipedia) has proved to be a trusted and powerful tool. Literally millions of edits have been made by “bots” through this (semi-)automated software suite, written in Python.
Bug triage is like a check-up for bots: we check the list of things that need to be done and clean up the list. During a bug triage, we go through the list of our open bugs and check them for reproducibility (Can we make them happen on our computer to investigate them), severity, priority, and we categorize them when necessary. Bugs in this context can imply a problem in scripts, or a feature request that improves Pywikibot.
From July 24 to July 27, we’ll be holding a big online event to learn what more needs to be done for Pywikibot. Which bugs need an urgent fix, what features are missing or incomplete, etc. Obviously, it is a also a good opportunity to look at the code and look for “bit rot”.
Fixing bugs can sometimes be hard and time-consuming, but bug triaging doesn’t require deep technical knowledge: anyone with a little experience about running bots can be of great help in the bug triage. Triage can be a tedious task due to the number of bugs involved, so we need your help to go through them all.
If you know your Python and are interested in putting your skills to good use to support Wikimedia sites, join us for the bug-a-thon starting July 24. Until then, you can start familiarizing yourself with Pywikibot and bug triaging!
Amir Sarabadani (User:Ladsgroup), editor on the Persian Wikipedia and Pywikibot developer
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