parser.add_argument('--collapse-user', dest="collapse_user", action="store_true",
help="Operate only on the final revision made by user a user within all sequences of consecutive edits made by a user. This can be useful for addressing issues with text persistence measures.")
-parser.add_argument('-p', '--persistence', dest="persist", default="", const='', type=str, choices = ['','segment','sequence','legacy'], nargs='?',
+parser.add_argument('-p', '--persistence', dest="persist", default=None, const='', type=str, choices = ['','segment','sequence','legacy'], nargs='?',
help="Compute and report measures of content persistent: (1) persistent token revisions, (2) tokens added, and (3) number of revision used in computing the first measure. This may by slow. The defualt is -p=sequence, which uses the same algorithm as in the past, but with improvements to wikitext parsing. Use -p=legacy for old behavior used in older research projects. Use -p=segment for advanced persistence calculation method that is robust to content moves, but prone to bugs, and slower.")
parser.add_argument('-u', '--url-encode', dest="urlencode", action="store_true",