Errors running imagetransfer to transfer images from Wikimedia Commons - pywikibot

25 Aug 2015

Hi,

I ran:

python imagetransfer.py 'File:matplotlib_screenshot.png' -tofamily:lwiki
...
  -tolang:en -family:commons -lang:commons 

and received the output:

/var/www/localhost/htdocs/w/core /var/www/localhost/htdocs/w/core
...

------------------------------------------------------------
 0. Found image: [[File:Matplotlib screenshot.png]]
 == {{int:filedesc}} ==
 {{Information
 |Description    ={{en|1=A screenshot showing [[:en:Matplotlib|Matplotlib]]
 plots of one 3D ''plot_surface'' graph and a polar bar graph resembling
the
 Matplotlib logo together with the graphic's python source code opened in a
 text editor.}}
 |Source         ={{own}}
 |Date           =2014-05-01
 |Author         =[[User:Geek3|Geek3]]
 |Permission     =
 |other_versions =
 }}
 == {{int:license-header}} ==
 {{self|GFDL|cc-by-3.0}}
 [[Category:Screenshots of software]]
 [[Category:Debian screenshots]]
 [[Category:Created with Matplotlib]]
 ============================================================
 The image is already on Wikimedia Commons.
 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/w/core 

Which I found confusing. I have InstantCommons enabled on my Wiki, if
relevant. No File:Matplotlib_screenshot.png page or file exists on my Wiki
(except for the mirror version of the page that exists due to
InstantCommons). Transferring from the English Wikipedia (namely
transferring File:Matplotlib_logo.svg) gives a different message (this one
is an error message):

ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
...
    File

"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pywikibot-2.0rc1.post2-py2.7.egg/pywikibot/data/api.py",
 line 1927, in submit
     body=body, headers=headers)
   File

"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pywikibot-2.0rc1.post2-py2.7.egg/pywikibot/tools/__init__.py",
 line 1248, in wrapper
     return obj(*__args, **__kw)
   File

"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pywikibot-2.0rc1.post2-py2.7.egg/pywikibot/comms/http.py",
 line 244, in request
     r = fetch(baseuri, method, body, headers, **kwargs)
   File

"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pywikibot-2.0rc1.post2-py2.7.egg/pywikibot/comms/http.py",
 line 401, in fetch
     error_handling_callback(request)
   File

"/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/pywikibot-2.0rc1.post2-py2.7.egg/pywikibot/comms/http.py",
 line 318, in error_handling_callback
     raise request.data
 ReadTimeout: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=80): Read timed
 out. (read timeout=30)
 WARNING: Waiting 5 seconds before retrying. 

which was repeated until the last line became: "WARNING: Waiting 40 seconds
before retrying". After this was the following error message:

...
  We got the following warning(s): exists: File
Matplotlib_Logo.svg already
 exists.
 Do you want to ignore? ([y]es, [N]o): n
 Upload aborted.
 /var/www/localhost/htdocs/w/core 

But the transfer did occur successfully (i.e., File:Matplotlib_Logo.svg now
exists).

Thanks for your time,
Brenton