This affects all bots running on WMF wikis.
The Pywikibot task for this is:
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T114189
Pywikibot master and 2.0 have been fixed.
If you have an existing job running on WMF wikis, the siteinfo cache
should allow the bot to continue running for an extra 24 hrs before it
falls over.
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From: Legoktm <legoktm.wikipedia(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 9:48 AM
Subject: [Mediawiki-api-announce] Wikimedia wikis version format
changing in 1.27 releases
To: mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hi,
The format of the version of MediaWiki releases to Wikimedia sites is
changing with the 1.27 release cycle.
Old format: 1.26wmf24
New format: 1.27.0-wmf.1
This affects the "generator" property of action=query&meta=siteinfo.
This is being done to bring the version numbers in compliance with the
semantic versioning standard[1]. See the Phabricator ticket for more
details[2]. This switch will happen with the 1.27.0-wmf.1 deployment,
which started today, and will reach all sites on Thursday, October 1.
Frameworks (like Pywikibot) that check the version number for
compatibility checking may need to be updated for the new format.
Apologies for the late notice.
[1]
http://semver.org/
[2]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T67306
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