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Robert Ullmann wrote:
The reason may be the new requirement of sending non-empty and non-zero (?) wpStarttime and wpEdittime parameters for all edit requests, including new page creations [1].
[1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=42037
That would do it. It breaks even today's svn version of the python wikipedia framework.
Did anyone even think that this might break something?
If you screen-scrape an HTML *user interface form* for your bot, YOU WILL GET BROKEN BY CHANGES, especially if you don't bother to even TRY to behave like an actual client (which would load all the required form variables from the edit page in the first place).
This particular change doesn't seem particularly necessary to me; the affected fields appear before the text field in the form, so should never be missing in an early submission from a browser.
I'll revert it for now...
- -- brion