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:

1. 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

2. 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.