2010/7/28 Nicolas Vervelle nvervelle@gmail.com:

Hi,

A few hours ago, the following kind of API requests is producing an API internal error.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?gbllimit=max&gbltitle=American&pro... resulting in <error code="internal_api_error_MWException" info="Exception Caught: Internal error in ApiResult::setElement: Attempting to add element backlinks=500, existing value is 500" xml:space="preserve">

If you remove the "gbllimit=max" parameter or replace it with a fixed value (gbllimit=200), it works.

Would it be possible to fix this bug ?

This was an embarrassing fail on my part: I realized I'd broken limit=max in some way just before going on vacation last week, but I didn't realize it was this bad (I thought it would just use too high maxima in certain situations) and I also didn't realize this code was gonna be deployed within a week of writing it, so I decided against texting a fellow developer from the airport.

Tim noticed and fixed this bug, and deployed the fix. The URL above is now working again.

Sorry for all that,

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)