On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:44 AM, richardcavell@mail.com wrote:
Hi all.
I'm coding a Wikipedia bot framework (not using any existing framework) for use on en-wiki. I'm a little confused by the documentation of edit tokens. Which is the correct approach:
- My bot obtains an edit token using the Main page as a nominal
title, saves the edit token and then uses it in every subsequent attempt to edit.
or
- My bot queries each page to obtain an edit token before attempting
to edit.
Number 1. An edit token remains the same during a single session, so there is no need to request a page just for the edit token, at least not to do it more than once. You might add code to change the edit token every time you happen to request a page that contains one.