Hello all,
This is a notice to all active interwiki bot owners. Today, we have
received two worrying bug reports of interwiki bots, removing content
from pages:
http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blankenbach&diff=prev&old…
http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mettau%2C_Switzerland&act…
Unfortunately, it is not possible to reproduce this bug by running
interwiki.py on the mentioned pages. As such, we have no idea what this
problem was caused by.
HiW-bot (nlwiki edit) was running r9558 at the time of the edit. We
would like your help in tracing the cause of this bug. If possible, see
if your bot has made any strange changes, and report them in the bug
thread for this problem:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3414669&g…
This might be related to the MediaWiki 1.18 deploy, see
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/16/mediawiki118iscomin/ for more
information
Thank you for your cooperation and understanding,
The pywikipediabot developers