https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55205

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55205 Summary: upload.py error with Wikia.com Product: Pywikibot Version: unspecified Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: Unprioritized Component: General Assignee: Pywikipedia-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org Reporter: legoktm.wikipedia@gmail.com Classification: Unclassified Mobile Platform: ---

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1424/ Reported by: Anonymous user Created on: 2012-03-18 17:47:08 Subject: upload.py error with Wikia.com Original description: P:\pywikipedia>python version.py Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r10023, 2012/03/17, 18:03:32) Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 14:24:46) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok

P:\pywikipedia>python upload.py wikih.jpg WARNING: Your account on sxerks:en does not have a bot flag. Its edits will be v isible in the recent changes and it may get blocked. Reading file wikih.jpg The filename on the target wiki will default to: wikih.jpg Enter a better name, or press enter to accept: The suggested description is:

Do you want to change this description? ([y]es, [N]o) n Uploading file to sxerks:en via API.... 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xff in position 622: ordinal not in range(128) WARNING: Could not open 'http://sxerks.wikia.com/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... Traceback (most recent call last): File "upload.py", line 472, in <module> main() File "upload.py", line 468, in main bot.run() File "upload.py", line 440, in run return self.upload_image() File "upload.py", line 282, in upload_image data = query.GetData(params, self.targetSite) File "P:\pywikipedia\query.py", line 137, in GetData site.cookies(sysop=sysop) File "P:\pywikipedia\upload.py", line 46, in post_multipart cookies=cookies) File "P:\pywikipedia\wikipedia.py", line 5497, in postData time.sleep(retry_idle_time * 60) KeyboardInterrupt