The idea is to create a user page and a talk page for a blocked user with a template, and immediately after creating to protect them.
The bot creates the pages and gives an error:
Creating page [[Szerkesztö:SZDSZ]] via API
Sleeping for 6.7 seconds, 2010-08-19 23:04:37
Creating page [[Szerkesztövita:SZDSZ]] via API
Note: Your sysop account on wikipedia:hu does not have a bot flag. Its edits wil
l be visible in the recent changes.
Sleeping for 4.8 seconds, 2010-08-19 23:04:49
Do you want to change the protection level of [[hu:Szerkesztö:SZDSZ]]? ([Y]es, [
N]o, [A]ll) a
{u'error': {u'info': u"Existing titles can't be protected with 'create'", u'code
': u'create-titleexists'}}
Sleeping for 6.9 seconds, 2010-08-19 23:04:57
{u'error': {u'info': u"Existing titles can't be protected with 'create'", u'code
': u'create-titleexists'}}
Now comes the funny thing: I run the script again. It saves the page with the same text (of course, this will not appear in page history), and now it protects the pages successfully!
Updating page [[Szerkesztö:SZDSZ]] via API
Sleeping for 7.9 seconds, 2010-08-19 23:14:28
Updating page [[Szerkesztövita:SZDSZ]] via API
Note: Your sysop account on wikipedia:hu does not have a bot flag. Its edits wil
l be visible in the recent changes.
Sleeping for 8.9 seconds, 2010-08-19 23:14:37
Do you want to change the protection level of [[hu:Szerkesztö:SZDSZ]]? ([Y]es, [
N]o, [A]ll) a
Changed protection level of page [[Szerkesztö:SZDSZ]].
Sleeping for 7.1 seconds, 2010-08-19 23:14:49
Changed protection level of page [[Szerkesztövita:SZDSZ]].
How is it possible that the second time the pages could be protected, although they were existing titles, too?
I tried to change the order of script lines: first protection, and saving afterwards. This works! But this way the bot creates the pages under my sysop name, because they are already protected.
I just have used the lines:
userlap.protect(reason=self.summary)
vitalap.protect(reason=self.summary)
In wikipedia.py protection stands as follows:
def protect(self, editcreate = 'sysop', move = 'sysop', etc.
So it has only a common "editcreate" parameter.
Please help, what is wrong in my solution, and how is it possible, that first time a page cannot be protected, and the second time it can?
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