[ot][spam][crazy] coding therapy: maybe a bugfix?

Undescribed Horrific Abuse, One Victim & Survivor of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Wed Nov 23 03:17:36 PST 2022


review of job title:
There is a perl script, and the goal is to edit it to add internationalization.

Notes on draft perl script
> copyright line. the author is an FSF member, celebrations
> GNU GPL license block

> # 1. read in a list of rss feeds and usernames
> # 2.

It has an incomplete functionality list containing 1 item. The item is
to read in a list of rss feeds and usernames.

> use strict;
> ...
It imports a handful of perl packages, including:
- mediawiki API
- www client
- perl value dumper
"wabget" is commented out.

> my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new();
> my $wikiURL = 'https://en.wikinews.org'; # /w/api.php';
> $mw->{config}->{api_url} = "$wikiURL/w/api.php";

It's talking with wikinews via the mediawiki perl api. wikinews is a
mediawiki site.

> while(1){

The rest of the script is inside an infinite loop. It runs like a daemon.


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