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	* meaning, if we expect Records pages to be automatically updated, then structure them so it makes it really easy to parse the page.		* meaning, if we expect Records pages to be automatically updated, then structure them so it makes it really easy to parse the page.

	[[Records]]		[[:Category:Records]]

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	* we have to do what we have to do, make it work using whatever capabilities it does have. work around that.		* we have to do what we have to do, make it work using whatever capabilities it does have. work around that.
	* meaning, if we expect Records pages to be automatically updated, then structure them so it makes it really easy to parse the page.		* meaning, if we expect Records pages to be automatically updated, then structure them so it makes it really easy to parse the page.

			[[Records]]

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	* pywikibot is limited, capabilities-wise, by its crummy incomplete barely-sufficient documentation.		* pywikibot is limited, capabilities-wise, by its crummy incomplete barely-sufficient documentation.
	* we have to do what we have to do, make it work using whatever capabilities it does have. work around that.		* we have to do what we have to do, make it work using whatever capabilities it does have. work around that.
			* meaning, if we expect Records pages to be automatically updated, then structure them so it makes it really easy to parse the page.

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	* Another example, how to connect the objects to a given page? Like, I can extract Category objects that tell me about categories on a page, but how do I update a section that may contain Categories, and preserve the Category links and only the category links? or the templates?		* Another example, how to connect the objects to a given page? Like, I can extract Category objects that tell me about categories on a page, but how do I update a section that may contain Categories, and preserve the Category links and only the category links? or the templates?
	* Why is this so difficult?		* Why is this so difficult?

			Solution to make this all simpler:

			* pywikibot is limited, capabilities-wise, by its crummy incomplete barely-sufficient documentation.
			* we have to do what we have to do, make it work using whatever capabilities it does have. work around that.

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	* I'm getting stuck on the very first non-trivial task I have, the very first non-trivial article I'm editing.		* I'm getting stuck on the very first non-trivial task I have, the very first non-trivial article I'm editing.
	* All kinds of mysterious stuff going on in the pywikibot library that isn't documented. WTF??		* All kinds of mysterious stuff going on in the pywikibot library that isn't documented. WTF??
			* Another example, how to connect the objects to a given page? Like, I can extract Category objects that tell me about categories on a page, but how do I update a section that may contain Categories, and preserve the Category links and only the category links? or the templates?
			* Why is this so difficult?

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==20211004==

Questions about Pywikibot:

* Digging into the example, there's this textlib.extract_sections, but it's not documented as part of the API. What gives?
* Once you extract a document into its corresponding sections, you can pick out a specific section. But what then?
* You can't (apparently) modify the Section object.
* You can't create your own Section, because it's a private object, not documented, not part of public API.
* So, we end up looping over each section, and finding section.title + section.content unless it's the section we want.
* This seems really idiotic, but there's no documentation of any of these functions or objects, sooooo what the fuck am I supposed to do?
* I'm getting stuck on the very first non-trivial task I have, the very first non-trivial article I'm editing.
* All kinds of mysterious stuff going on in the pywikibot library that isn't documented. WTF??