Ah, yes, I should've added the output I got, sorry. The logging right before and after this are showing successful edits, so it appears that the problem is only related to this large page. The output written to STDERR/STDOUT for the most recent of the two times the issues happened is: WARNING: Waiting 5 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 10 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 20 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 40 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 80 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. Sleeping for 5.0 seconds, 2012-10-23 19:18:07 Sleeping for 4.3 seconds, 2012-10-23 19:18:12 WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. WARNING: Waiting 120 seconds before retrying. SuggestBot Error: Failed posting recommendations to 'User talk:The Master of Mayhem'. Error: '[[User talk:The Master of Mayhem]]: Maximum retries attempted without success.' The last two lines are the output of the script catching the pywikibot.exceptions.PageNotSaved error and writing out the message contained in the exception. Thanks for noticing the lack of edits from this user. SuggestBot does check for inactivity and I just updated our configuration, so this user won't be getting more suggestions unless they return to Wikipedia. Cheers, Morten On 27 October 2012 03:10, DeltaQuad Wikipedia <deltaquadwiki(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Do you have any logs from the output? It might indicate if the server said > the edit failed, but it didn't in actuality. It could also be an issue with > the internet connection your bot has, as dropouts would cause the connection > to retry. Though I'm not familiar with the total internal workings of > pywikipedia, I can try and help. 300kb+ is big, but I would like to think > the servers could still handle it. You might want to put adding notices to > that users page on hold though, for the sake of the size and them not > editing in 2 months. > > DeltaQuad > English Wikipedia Administrator and Checkuser > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Morten Wang <nettrom(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I noticed that SuggestBot's struggled with saving a user page earlier >> this week, see >> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:The_Master_of_Mayhem&am… >> Notice the larger number of saves that have a diff size of 0 bytes. >> >> I suspect it's due to the size of the page, 300+kB, is this a typical >> problem? If not I can start digging to see if I can figure out what's >> going on. If it is a common problem, what are some typical ways of >> solving it? Just checking the page size and skip/abort if it's too >> large? >> >> >> Regards, >> Morten >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pywikipedia-l mailing list >> Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >

that behaviour happens quite often. In fact the page i saved but the bot still tries. n example of my bot trying to save an edit to page [[Polska]] on pl.wikipedia - Obecnie Ruch Palikota ma 44 posłów, ponieważ posłowie z innych partii przenieśli się do tego ugrupowania.<ref name="Ruch Palikota">http://www.ruchpalikota.org.pl/ludzie</ref> + Obecnie Ruch Palikota ma 44 posłów, ponieważ posłowie z innych partii przenieśli się do tego ugrupowania.<ref name="Ruch Palikota">[http://www.ruchpalikota.org.pl/ludzie Ruch Palikota - Nowoczesne Państwo<!-- Tytuł wygenerowany przez bota -->]</ref> Updating page [[Polska]] via API timed out WARNING: Could not open 'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... timed out WARNING: Could not open 'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 2 minutes... <urlopen error timed out> WARNING: Could not open 'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 4 minutes... timed out WARNING: Could not open 'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 8 minutes... timed out WARNING: Could not open 'http://pl.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 16 minutes... masti On 10/27/2012 10:10 AM, DeltaQuad Wikipedia wrote: _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l

my example below is using newest trunk so yes it affects trunk also masti On 10/31/2012 04:11 PM, Morten Wang wrote: ______________________________**_________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.**org &lt;Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l<https://lis…