I have a bot editing script that started having trouble logging
in to the English Wikipedia a few days ago. I think what's
happening is that the login process started using Javascript in a
way it didn't before, and is detecting that my script doesn't do
Javascript (which it doesn't), and throwing a second, fallback,
non-Javascript-using login page at the point where the script is
expecting to have already logged in.
So the question is, if this is the case, is there a way to force
the use of the non-Javascript login page from the beginning?
Or if this is not the case, is there some other recent change
that might have affected the flow?
(And, in case you're wondering, no, the script does not use the
API, but yes, I know about it, and this may be the circumstance
that goads me into actually using it.)
