On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 08:49:48AM +1200, Jim Tittsler
wrote:
> On 17/07/09 16:18, Dan Collins wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Tittsler<j...(a)onnz.net>et>:
> > > 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?
Are you correctly supplying both the basetimestamp
and
starttimestamp parameters to the action=edit call?
I found this through:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org/msg01220.html
I maintain cl-mediawiki (a common lisp pass through to the MediaWiki
api) and had this exact problem. The solution for me was to request
the revision timestamp rather than relying on the touched value
returned from asking for the action tokens.
Using the following query I get the correct timestamp (as well as the
touched which is incorrect):
action=query&prop=info|revisions&intoken=edit&titles=MyPage&rvprop=timestamp
My question is: What would cause the touched date to be different
from the last revision timestamp?
HTH and Thanks for the info,
Russ