I'm in the first stage of converting {{Infobox Country}} templates, and had a bad conversion create a page. I erased the contents of my bad page, and now I'm getting an EditConflict on that page...4 times in a row so far. I'm testing with "if ( not newpage.exists() ) or newpage.isEmpty():" before "newpage.put( newpage_text )". I wonder if there is a relationship between this discussion of Page.exists() incantation and the EditConflict. (User:SEWilco)
Jason Y. Lee wrote:
Also, avar in IRC mentioned it might be better to determine non-existing pages via Special:Export.
For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Non-existing_page
Has the identicial XML match as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Doesnotexist
And does not match: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/User:AllyUnion
Furthermore, this is universal for all languages and sites, at least in the fact that I've tested it on several languages and meta.
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:11:44AM -0800, Jason Y. Lee wrote:
A vandal blanked out a page, and the bot ended up raising the page as a page that didn't exist... I don't remember, but was the functionality of the bot always like that?
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