On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jim Tittsler <jt@onnz.net> wrote:

On 17/07/09 16:18, Dan Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Tittsler<jt@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?
>

> 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.

I think there is something else going on. Writing to this particular
page now *always* fails through the API. It always succeeds when I edit
through the web. The history of the page says only the bot and my test
edits have been performed on the page. The bot continues to write to
other pages. Are there other conditions that get reported as edit
conflicts?

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