On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:14 PM, John Mark Vandenberg jayvdb@gmail.com wrote:
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- paramInfo failure that breaks pywikibot's dynamic api detection;
pywikibot batch loads the paraminfo for all modules, for example issuing the following API as part of the initialisation, and it is a 503 Service Unavailable http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=...
A little digging shows that the problematic module is fancycaptchareload
http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=...
"Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes.
If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.beta.wmflabs.org/w/api.php?action=paraminfo&modules=..., from 127.0.0.1 via deployment-cache-text02 deployment-cache-text02 ([127.0.0.1]:3128), Varnish XID 855090368 Forwarded for: [your IP], 127.0.0.1 Error: 503, Service Unavailable at Fri, 29 May 2015 07:57:09 GMT "
Could someone investigate this / fix that module?
After pywikibot devs cleared some other test breakages (our problems) we see this problem is also affecting the test wikis, which I assume means this bug will be affecting real wikis soon, so I've created an Unbreak Now! ticket for it and cc'd @greg.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T100775