Bugs item #3547316, was opened at 2012-07-22 09:34 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by harriv You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3547316...

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Status: Open

Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Harriv (harriv) Assigned to: xqt (xqt) Summary: category.py listify cannot create a new page

Initial Comment: Error message:

Creating page [[Elavat henkilot]] via API HTTPError: 500 Internal Server Error WARNING: Could not open 'http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...

This repats multiple times.

Version info: Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r10457, 2012/07/15, 08:27:45) Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48) [GCC 4.4.5] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: triggers problem #3081100

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Comment By: Harriv (harriv)

Date: 2012-07-22 10:30

Message: Problem is related with big page size. Page with 3 articles goes thru, but page with 55000+ articles creates this error.

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Comment By: Harriv (harriv) Date: 2012-07-22 09:48

Message: I can open http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php with my browser ok, so Wikipedia server is working ok. Same bot also uses archivebot.py without problems (editing and creating pages).

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Comment By: xqt (xqt) Date: 2012-07-22 09:42

Message: This is not a bug but the normal way handling server errors: increasing the wait time and try again.

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