Missing utility script dumpgenerator.py

[GreenReaper]

I wanted to backup my WBStack-hosted Wikibase, the information of which is stored in JSON blobs as page content.

I managed to scrape together the necessary FreeBSD packages to get Wikiteams' dumpgenerator.py working with Python 2.7. However, this is not a solution that can be maintained, or recommended, as they are no longer available via package managers.

I tried installing poetry and wikitools3. However, no dumpgenerator.py exists, and I see it's not in the repo yet - maybe it's not even in scope, considering this is a lower-level library that wikiteam relies on. Perhaps this file from this pull request is required?

I appreciate it may not be the priority for Wikiteam's own use, and it's a pretty big script in relation to the API itself - however it's the recommended approach for backing up a third-party-hosted MediaWiki, so it would be useful if it could be adapted for Python 3, and that could be rolled out.

[GreenReaper]

This seems to actually be addressed by the higher-level elsiehupp/wikiteam:python3, though I had to tweak it to save the XML.

[elsiehupp]

Hi @GreenReaper—thanks for taking the time to write detailed feedback. I am not actually an official maintainer of @WikiTeam, though if I ever finish all of peripheral parts of porting it to Python 3 I might end up being one. I’ll respond further on the other thread.