Bugs item #3208738, was opened at 2011-03-13 13:43 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by ganz-ru You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3208738...

Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: interwiki Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 8 Private: No Submitted By: Tanvir Rahman (tanvirglhs) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Interwiki.py is replacing texts

Initial Comment: Hello, few days ago, my interwiki bot was malfunctioning 1/2 days ago. It was replacing words of the main article, what interwiki.py does not suppose to do. After I got informed about that problems, I stopped it, and re-installed Pywikipedia, and started everything over. As far as I know, that's not happening again now, but I still curious to know why was that happening in case of few edits. Since I don't know the cause, so I don't have the clue how to solve it in future.

The problematic diffs are as follows:

1. http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/?&diff=2826459&oldid=2826454 2. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/?&diff=prev&oldid=86257583 3. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/?&diff=prev&oldid=86259285 4. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/?&diff=prev&oldid=86258895 5. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/?&diff=prev&oldid=86259821

Here is the copy of my current version.py. The actual Pywikipedia version was a few revisions earlier.

Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9042, 2011/03/13, 10:14:47) Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 4 2011, 13:57:14) [GCC 4.5.2] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok

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Comment By: GanZ (ganz-ru) Date: 2011-03-20 06:11

Message: My script checked contribution and found some incorrect edits (below edits in De.Wiki): WikitanvirBot (in addition to edits in topic) http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86256825 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86260439 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86256886

Luckas-bot: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86259198 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86260085 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86260280

Xqbot: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86260277 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86260345

ArthurBot: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=86258540

So, this problem happened to many different bots.

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Comment By: GanZ (ganz-ru) Date: 2011-03-18 05:01

Message: Also, I think that it is possible to write some script which can check bot's edits and compare with it's description in comment. In almost every of founded cases there clear mismatch between edit and it's description.

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Comment By: GanZ (ganz-ru) Date: 2011-03-18 04:54

Message: Same problem:

* http://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=182567&oldid=181429 * http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=32635182&oldid=32613311 * http://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=32634369&oldid=32072584 (edit's comment does not correspond to action. 2 lines were removed by cosmetic_changes.py) * http://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=182568&oldid=181967

All of these edits have 2 common points: 1) Date - 9-th or 10-th of March 2) Every edit changes some symbols to others by it's code shifting. For example (here - http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/?diff=2826459&oldid=2826454): l (U+006C) -> h (U+0068) s (U+0073) -> w (U+0077) r (U+0072) -> v (U+0076) And everytime the new symbol is greater or lesser than old exactly of 4.

My current version (not the version when problem happened, of cource): Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9086, 2011/03/17, 14:20:21) Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-03-13 16:13

Message: Do you still have the checkout that caused these problems?

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