I was using mediawiki 1.13.4 with mwclient 0.6.2 to upload some wiki pages and template pages using MW api. Recently I upgraded both the tools to MW 15.4 and MWClient 0.6.4 ( I could not upgrade to MW 1.16 as I have some dependency for Halo)

I have restricted read and edit permission for anonymous user in LocalSetting.php As : $wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false; $wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;

I have always upload wiki pages using following calls in mwclient:

site = mwclient.Site(server, path)----(1) site.login(username, password)---(2)

but once I upgraded MW to 15.4 it started failing at first line, even before trying to login. I tested mwclient 0.6.4 with MW 1.13.4 and it is working fine.

Is there any change in MW API which try to read some wiki pages/template pages in order to create Site object ?

I am getting following error.

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mwclient.errors.APIError: (u'readapidenied', u'You need read permission to use this module', None)

Thanks --sumit