Help:Lingua Libre/Tools

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Lingua Libre Bot adds in near real time the new audio recordings on Wikimedia projects such as Wiktionary or Wikidata.

If you want to learn more about Lingua Libre Bot or if you want it to keep your wiki up to date with our recordings, please visit Commons:Lingua Libre/Bot or contact Poslovitch.

To be completed by Yug.

• List enhancer
• RoR.js
  • [Next: Filename to SDC editors]
• Lingua Libre uploader

• FuzzyBot, which is a part of MediaWiki's Translate extension.
• Olafbot, which maintains for more than 70 languages a list of words with no audio pronunciation yet, listed by number of Wiktionaries describing them.
• PamputtBot, which tags items with P33 (P33) when needed.
• Dragons Bot, which edits batches of lists.

The full list of bots working on Lingua Libre is available here.

• For Pywikibot, see Help:Lingua Libre/Log in to Lingua Libre with Pywikibot
• Wikiapi (NodeJS)
• Commons API: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php
• Finalissima (Q595275), a sandbox element for bot test purposes

Several contributors have asked for a bot able to edit and update Audio pages on Commons. Below are some elements to develop a such bot. Python, Javascript and MediaWikiJS (user:{name}/common.js) are likely avenues. See also the documentations page and code samples in:

• MediaWiki API: Edit
• MediaWiki API: Get

The Wikimedia Foundation offers volunteers developers a series of technical tools. Lingua Libre use the following :

• Phabricator — task manger
• Gitlab — codebase
• Toolsadmin.wikimedia.org — wm tools manager
• Toolhub.wikimedia.org — wm tools gallery
• Toolforge.org — web servers (medium & normalized)
• Cloud VPS Projects — web servers (large & custom)
• Horizon.wikimedia.org — Cloud VPS manager

Developers need to get identified as developers.

• WM Developer Account Sign Up (Help:Create a Wikimedia developer account)

Find your current info :

• Toolsadmin profile : https://toolsadmin.wikimedia.org/profile/settings/accounts/
• LDAP info : https://ldap.toolforge.org/user/michael-wmfr (replace username by yours)
  • Manage : https://idm.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/login/

Most of the services above require a dedicated registration process or invitation. Please search for the relevant documentation and follow through. Contact active Lingua Libre developer for invitations.

• Commons:Lingua Libre/Bot
• Commons:Lingua Libre/Wikidata