Dear Pywikibot user,
The Wikimedia Foundation recently [1] pushed MediaWiki 1.24wmf2 to all
sites. This version contains a change [2] which causes two problems:
- For compat, bots will edit as anonymous user;
- For core, bots will ask for a password at each script invocation.
This bug is tracked on Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64727
A change fixing this bug [3] has been merged, but it has not been deployed
yet. This should happen tomorrow, Monday, May 05, 15:00–16:00 UTC [4,5].
In the meanwhile, we suggest to not use compat until the fixed MediaWiki
version has been deployed. For core, you can work around this bug by
creating a password file, as documented at [6].
Best regards,
Merlijn and Maarten
[1]
MediaWiki.org, testwiki, test2wiki and testwikidatawiki on 24 April
2014; All non-Wikipedia sites on 29 April 2014; All Wikipedias on 1 May
2014 (
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap#Schedule_for_the_depl…)
[2]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/94614/
[3]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/131056/
[4]
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64727#c9
[5]
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deployments
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Use_on_third-party_wikis#Bo…