pywikiapi: why + update

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pywikiapi: why + update #162

Open benoit74 opened 8 months ago

benoit74 commented 8 months ago

We should:

document why we are using pywikiapi instead of pywikibot (there is probably a good reason but it seems it is about to get lost)
use upstream pywikiapi package (PyPi) instead of custom repo, now that our changes have been merged and we have write access to the upstream repo: https://github.com/nyurik/pywikiapi/pull/3

rgaudin commented 8 months ago

Git commit introducing it doesn't mention this.

I don't recall which options were considered and what were the reasons but I'd guess it's because our usage of the API is very limited and because pywikiapi is just a thin wrapper handling pagination in our case.

Feel free to reconsider.

benoit74 commented 6 months ago

@kelson42 mentioned on slack we might want to consider Pywikibot instead of Pywikiapi