On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Tittsler<jt(a)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?
MediaWiki 1.14
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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.
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