On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Tittslerjt@onnz.net wrote:
I have a bot (using mwclient 0.6.2) that nightly updates some status pages on WikiEducator.org. It has suddenly started failing with an 'Edit conflict' but I can edit the page by hand and the script continues to write to another page. Are there things that would prohibit the API from writing to a page but still allow editing through the wiki?
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Yes. Specifically, an edit conflict will cause one attempt to fail and the next to succeed with no problem. For details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict but essentially someone else changed the page while you were editing it and the wiki wants you to make sure you don't accidentally overwrite their changes.