MeetingCreateBot

Creates meetings automatically in the VTLUUG (Linux and Unix Users Group at Virginia Tech) wiki.

Installation

1. Download pywikibot if you haven't done so already.
2. You'll also need to download your OS's version of Python 3.
3. Get pywikibot by running pip3 install pywikibot or similar.

Configuration

• conf/credentials.txt: Place the password for the wikibot user on the wiki here. I'm not going to include that in the public code for obvious reasons. =) You can also specify a different user to use here, but you must change the name in user-config.py as well.
• conf/meetingtemplate.txt: This is the template that the bot places into each new meeting. It's formatted in mediawiki syntax, with the exception of the autoreplace symbols defined below.
• conf/calendartemplate.txt: This is the template that the bot places into the calendar when it runs. It's formatted in mediawiki syntax, with the exception of the autoreplace symbols defined below.
• conf/user-config.py: You shouldn't have to mess with this, but it contains settings for pywikibot. This file will be interesting if you're hacking this to run on a different user or different wiki altogether; the first few settings define username and wiki location.
• Note: If you want this script to run at certain time intervals (ex: making a meeting every week), you must have cron run this script every week. Running this script once will create one meeting.

Autoreplace Symbols

The following symbols are recognized and replaced in the template files:

• $c is replaced by today's date, in ISO format
• $d is replaced by the meeting being created's date, in ISO format
• $l is replaced by last meeting's date, in ISO format. Note that this value is whenever the most recent meeting found was, it is NOT a one week prior symbol.

Running

Launch the script with ./luugmeeting.py. No drama necessary!

You can supply -d YYYY-MM-DD when running the script to supply a date to create the meeting, otherwise, today is assumed.

Contributions/Forking

MeetingCreateBot uses the MIT License. If you want to submit pull requests with features/fixes, you're definitely welcome. Also, feel free to modify this code to suit your needs. The current code shouldn't be too hard to modify to work with your own wiki.