ArquiBot

Arquibot is a Wikipedia archive bot built with Django for the Brazilian Wikimedia community.

It monitors Portuguese Wikipedia (ptwiki) for new or unarchived external links in {{citar}} templates, automatically archives them using the Wayback Machine, and updates the articles with properly formatted archived citations. The bot also logs statistics into a Django database and provides a web interface for monitoring activity.

Running locally

Enter the src/ directory.

Copy .env.sample to .env and provide the environment variables.

To authenticate it locally, you will need to use the developer access. Request an access token at https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AppManagement, click on "Create key". You should ask for a Personal API token, allow it to create and edit items and save. Copy the Access token to fill ARQUIBOT_TOKEN.

Setup a python virtual environment using requirements.txt. An easy way to do that is to run nix-shell.

Available commands

• python3 manage.py runserver to see the web page with statistics
• python3 manage.py run_article TITLE to run for a specific article
• python3 manage.py run_rc_date YYYY-MM-DD to run on recent changes at a speficic date (UTC)
  • run_rc_date skips articles checked in the past 7 days
  • you can also make it stop after a certain number of edits python manage.py run_rc_date YYYY-MM-DD --stop-at-edit-count 10
• python3 manage.py runner will run everyday on yesterday's Recent Changes, waiting until the next day to run again. Continuous command.

Toolforge deployment

Deployed as a regular python django app on Toolforge, through .github/workflows/toolforge-deploy.yml. The runner continuous command is run through uwsgi daemons.