Hi strainu,
Op 8-12-2012 11:21, Strainu schreef:
Hi,
I'm running a robot that makes relatively small changes in ~250KB
pages. Starting from November, the change is made, but I recieve a 504
error. This does not happen when making the change manually and it did
not happen earlier in the year (say, September). The code is a custom,
pywikipediabot-based robot on ro.wp. One example of such change is
http://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lista_monumentelor_istorice_din_j…
Has something changed recently in the server configuration that would
cause such errors to occur? Is there somethnig I can do to avoid them,
except splitting the pages?
Pages are rather large and should probably be split up
in more
manageable pieces. I wrote some documentation about that at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Improving_lis…
But that doesn't solve the problem. What is the timeout of the normal
interface (a user editing) and what is the timeout for the api? Could
someone (maybe ops) answer this question?
I assume there is a difference between that. You could confirm this by
falling back to a non-api write after you received a timeout .
Maarten