[Pywikipedia-l] [ pywikipediabot-Bugs-2137018 ] special_page_limit not honored

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Bugs item #2137018, was opened at 2008-09-29 19:06
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Assigned to: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Summary:   special_page_limit not honored

Initial Comment:
In the config, I have:

  special_page_limit      = 5000

but my recentechanges bot only operates on 1000 entries, then it stops. Maybe, the limitation
is within MediaWiki, or the bot must be run with
admin powers or something else, I have not
investigated.

I do not really know, when this was changed, but
some months ago, it would work as expected, and
nothing was changed in the config file since.



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>Comment By: Russell Blau (russblau)
Date: 2008-11-21 07:31

Message:
Did this change really fix your problem?  I don't see how changing
redirect.py would have any effect at all on other bots, and you originally
posted that the problem was with a recentchanges bot.  redirect.py reads
off Special:DoubleRedirects, and that page is limited to 1000 entries by a
hard-coded limit inside MediaWiki, so changing the special_page_limit won't
allow you to retrieve any more pages.

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Comment By: Purodha B Blissenbach (purodha)
Date: 2008-11-21 05:51

Message:
Fixed in r...

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