On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Maarten Dammers maarten@mdammers.nl wrote:
HI Sumana ,
Op 17-1-2012 18:11, Sumana Harihareswara schreef:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-so...
Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service API will be disabled for 24 hours beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18, as part of the anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout.
Please forward and publicize so people who use and run bots are alerted.
How is the api block implemented? What output is my bot going to get? Some details would be nice.
Maarten
Probably set $wgEnableWriteAPI to false, if they do that when trying to perform the disabled actions you'll received an 'unrecognized action' error or something simiar.