Bugs item #3414669, was opened at 2011-09-27 21:50 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by valhallasw You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=3414669...

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: hiw (hiw) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: interwiki.py removing page text

Initial Comment: Following edit on NL-disamb. page, the page got emptied, only the interwiki link remained. Interwiki.py should not have touched the page in the first place, since the interwiki link was already set earlier.

Diff-link: http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blankenbach&diff=next&oldi...

Active Python on Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]

Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r9558, 2011/09/25, 20:30:54) Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 24 2011, 12:21:10) [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: 2011-09-29 20:39

Message: At the moment: no. In theory, the special:export function could probably be replaced by one or more API calls, but I have no reason to assume this actually solves the problem...

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Comment By: hiw (hiw) Date: 2011-09-29 04:58

Message: Can you force the script to use API to get the page text?

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-09-28 21:47

Message: I did some more testing, using python interwiki.py -lang:de -page:Blankenbach%20%28Begriffskl%C3%A4rung%29 -async -cleanup -auto -async

note that these findings are not necessarily true for running on full auto...

in this setup, the bot ALWAYS uses special:export to get page text. It does use the API to write the pages. It only retrieves the pages ONCE, at the start of the run.

sigh.

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Comment By: hiw (hiw) Date: 2011-09-28 00:31

Message: Pffff, I believe it was:

interwiki.py -all -async -cleanup -log -auto -start:

I would think I used -ns:0 also, nut sure.

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-09-27 22:53

Message: Question to both committer and myst: what was the exact command line you were using?

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-09-27 22:49

Message: Last note for tonight: quickly reviewing the diff to r9500 (2011-09-03) did not yield anything really change. Note: I did this in one bunch. Reviewing commits from the mailinglist one at a time might still be a good plan...

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-09-27 22:42

Message: Last three edits of interwiki.py are all quite old:

------------------------------------------------------------------------ r9407 | xqt | 2011-07-16 23:35:06 +0200 (Sat, 16 Jul 2011) | 1 line

trailing space for list elements (readability) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r9387 | amir | 2011-07-16 12:05:50 +0200 (Sat, 16 Jul 2011) | 1 line

adding fa for exception templates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r9308 | xqt | 2011-06-24 19:14:40 +0200 (Fri, 24 Jun 2011) | 1 line

do not follow static redirects which means do not change the target links like -noredirect does (with -cleanup option. -force removes that link - maybe this should be fixed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Comment By: Merlijn S. van Deen (valhallasw) Date: 2011-09-27 22:37

Message: This has also happened with Myst's bot on simplewiki: http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mettau%2C_Switzerland&acti...

Increasing priority, rephrased title.

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