https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55162

Web browser: --- Bug ID: 55162 Summary: Bot saves big pages but doesn't know that it was saved 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/1543/ Reported by: eugo Created on: 2012-11-19 09:25:39 Subject: Bot saves big pages but doesn't know that it was saved Original description: The bot can edit (i.e. the edit is actually made) a huge page (>900 KB), but it gets back an error and cannot proceed: """ Updating page [[Wikipedia:Bibliotheksrecherche/Anfragen/Archiv/2012]] via API <urlopen error [Errno 35] Resource temporarily unavailable> WARNING: Could not open 'http://de.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server or your connection is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... """ Run the attached script to see this error.

I remember there was a similar problem with Wikimedia's server configuration some time ago. But I don't know the details anymore...

--- Pywikipedia [http] trunk/pywikipedia (r10741, 2012/11/18, 20:22:23) Python 2.7.3 (v2.7.3:70274d53c1dd, Apr 9 2012, 20:52:43) [GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] config-settings: use_api = True use_api_login = True unicode test: ok