The file I'm trying to upload is the *.png thumbnail of the Pywikipediabot logo from this page... http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Pwb_icon.svg
The thumbnail is called http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/Pwb_icon.svg/128px-... but I have shortened the filename, as per the example below, to "Pwbicon.png" (without the quotes). So the filename should not contain any non-ASCII chars. As for the file itself, I don't know, and wouldn't even know how to find out. ;)
For me it seems that you have an HTTP error on uploading and the error message contains a non-ASCII character. This is an old problem, nobody could solve it by this time. Does your uploaded file contain none-ASCII chars?
2013/8/21 AugurNZ augurnz@orcon.net.nz
Hi, I was pointed here from #pywikipediabot on Freenode IRC. I am using Pywikipediabot (trunk) revision 11781 under Ubuntu 12.04. I'm having no success using the upload.py script. It keeps failing with the following error message...
augur@ubuntu:/home/augur/pywikipedia# python upload.py -family:tropical -keep -filename:Pwbicon.png -noverify Pwbicon.png "The Pywikipediabot icon" No handlers could be found for logger "pywiki" Reading file Pwbicon.png The suggested description is: The Pywikipediabot icon Uploading file to tropical:en via API.... ERROR: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x89 in position 654: ordinal not in range(128) WARNING: Could not open 'http://www.tropicalwikis.com/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...
I can perform other actions on www.tropicalwikis.com with my bot, such as using login.py, replace.py etc. I have also tried using a different -family: and logging in to www.thetestwiki.org (where I also have a valid bot account) and tried uploading the image file there, with the same result.
I'm not a python expert, in fact I'm barely a python novice. I came across this information which may be relevant though... http://wiki.python.org/moin/UnicodeDecodeError
Thanks. AugurNZ
ps. sorry if this is a repeat of a previous message. I wasn't registered on the list when I first sent this, but I am now.
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