On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Chris Watkins
<chriswaterguy(a)appropedia.org> wrote:
I'm trying to work out my bot problems (why it
doesn't save), and it seems
to be something to do with the api.
Mediawiki is installed in our root directory (i.e.
www.appropedia.org/Article_name - I know this is frowned on by some, but
it's probably not practical to change this now) and it seems that it is
trying to resolve api.php as an article name - i.e.
http://www.appropedia.org/Api.php (capital A).
I asked our MediaWiki administrator, and he has questions* - any help in
answering them would be greatly appreciated:
...it seems that we need to allow the api in the localsettings and take care
of the rewrite rules... can you do a little research into the downsides of
that? Do you know if a) accessing the api is necessary? b) if there are any
problems associated with opening the api for mediawiki?
The API is enabled by default, you only need to fix the rewrite rules.
In the mean time, you could try to raise a NotImplementedError in the
api_address method of your pywikipedia family file; this should allow
the bot to work without the API.
Bryan