Automatic meeting minutes wiki page creation, and email notification

pywikibot connected to https://i3detroit.org/wiki

Meeting minutes for board and member meetings are created on the day of the previous meeting, so there is never a time without the agenda for the next meeting. Email notifications for member and board meetings are emailed out one week in advance to the member list.

create_meeting_minutes.py expects to be run on a Tuesday. Add to crontab and fill in paths:

0 0 * * 2 /usr/bin/python3 $WIKI_MINUTES_BOT_DIR/create_meeting_minutes.py >> $LOG_LOCATION/minutes_creation.log 2>&1
0 0 * * 2 /usr/bin/python3 $WIKI_MINUTES_BOT_DIR/email_meeting_minutes.py >> $LOG_LOCATION/minutes_email.log 2>&1

Setup

pywikibot + bot user

This worked on pywikibot commit b78fa049e on 2021-01-30.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt
git clone --recursive --branch stable https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/pywikibot/core.git pwb
cd pwb
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# to update:
#    git pull origin stable --recurse-submodules # This updates everything

python3 pwb.py generate_family_file.py
# https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/Main_Page
# i3

# go to https://www.i3detroit.org/wiki/Special:BotPasswords
# make a bot
python3 pwb.py generate_user_files
# choose i3
# *your* username
# add bot password
# bot username and password

python3 pwb/pwb.py [whatever script you want to run]

google setup

token.json is google magic.