Support Requests item #1885569, was opened at 2008-02-03 07:43 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by wikipedian You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603139&aid=1885569...

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: None Group: None Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Xwing328 (xwing328) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Replace.py adds wikia-credits text

Initial Comment: Whenever replace.py makes a change to an article, it adds the following text to the very end of the article: <div id="wikia-credits"><br /><br /><small>From [[wikia:c:starwars|Wookieepedia]], a [[wikia:|Wikia]] wiki.</small></div>

You can see a test of this on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars wiki, here: http://starwars.wikia.com/index.php?title=%22Rachet%22_Gramzee&diff=1780...

This seems to be related to a MediaWiki upgrade. I've tried it on both my old version of Pywikipedia, and several of the new snapshots, with the same problem occurring. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

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Comment By: Daniel Herding (wikipedian)

Date: 2008-02-04 09:45

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=880694 Originator: NO

This is not only a Wookieepedia problem, but also occurs on (probably all) other Wikia wikis, for example on http://aachen.wikia.com/wiki/Spezial:Exportieren/Hauptseite .

I would also say that this is a Wikia bug and that they should fix it. By the way, haven't we discussed this issue some time before already?

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Comment By: Andre Engels (a_engels) Date: 2008-02-03 22:26

Message: Logged In: YES user_id=843018 Originator: NO

I don't know what to do about it, but I can tell you what the cause is: The cause is that the bot gets its text from [[Special:Export]], and on Wookieepedia this text has been added to all pages on the export page. If you have contact with the people who can change that, you can ask them to change it back or to create a special 'raw' export page for the bot.

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