Hi everyone.

I'm trying to code a wikipedia bot, building the framework myself. I want to understand how to interpret the results of a request to the Edit MediaWiki API. So far my code does this :

Interpret HTTP status code. if it's 503, sleep then try again if it's 504, sleep then try again if it's not 200, abort giving an error code

Test for an API Error if it's maxlag, sleep then try again if it's editconflict, restart the whole test-edit sequence if it's success, return success abort, giving an error code

1. Are there any common replies that I am not accounting for with the above code?

2. How do I best test for an API Error? Should I search the header for "MediaWiki-API-Error:" and use the rest of the string as the code? Or should I test the body? I'm working in XML.

3. Similarly, how do I best test for success?

TIA,

Richard