90% of the time, my bots are hitting a technical issue when trying to edit. Here's one of thousands of instances it got by doing 3 hours of bot work.
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Wikimedia Error</title>
<meta name="author" content="Mark Ryan"/>
<meta name="copyright" content="(c) 2005-2007 Mark Ryan and others. Text licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.txt"/>
<style type="text/css"><!--
body {
background-color: #dbe5df;
font: 100% "Gill Sans MT", "Gill Sans", "Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif;
margin: 0px;
}
.TechnicalStuff {
font-size: 0.8em;
font-style: italic;
text-align: center;
padding-bottom: 0.8em;
}
.Lines {
width: 100%;
height: 1px;
overflow: hidden;
font-size: 0.5px;
}
.ContentArea {
background-color: white;
padding: 0.8em 10% 0 10%;
font-size: 1.0em;
}
a:hover {
color: red;
}
h1, h2 {
margin: 0px;
font-size: 1.0em;
}
h2 {
background: #9fbfd8;
font-size: 1.2em;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
}
h1 {
background: #dbe5df;
font: bold 1.5em "Gill Sans MT", "Gill Sans", Helvetica, Humanist, sans-serif;
text-transform: uppercase;
text-align: center;
width: 100%;
padding-top:0.8em;
}
-->
</style>
<script>/*<![CDATA[*/
function lines(s) {
var c = s.split(' ');
for (var i = 0; i < c.length; i++) {
document.write('<div class="Lines" style="background-color:#' + c[i] + ';"></div>');
}}
//]]></script>
</head>
<body link="#24442E" text="#000000" vlink="#24442E" alink="#FF0000">
<h1>Wikimedia Foundation</h1>
<script>lines('ccd4cf bdc3bf adb1af 9ea09f dbe5df');</script>
<h2>Error</h2>
<script>lines('8f8f8f acacac c6c6c6 dbdbdb eaeaea f4f4f4');</script>
<!-- BEGIN CONTENT AREA -->
<div class="ContentArea">
<div id="en" lang="en">
<p>Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please <a href="//w/api.php" onclick="window.location.reload(false); return false">try again</a> in a few minutes.</p>
<p>The Wikimedia Foundation is a non-profit organisation which hosts some of the most popular sites on the Internet, including Wikipedia. It has a constant need to purchase new hardware. If you would like to help, please <a href="https://donate.wikimedia.org/?utm_medium=varnisherr&utm_source=20120
809SQ01&utm_campaign=errorpage">donate</a>.</p>
<hr noshade="noshade" size="1px" width="80%" />
<div class="TechnicalStuff">
If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below.<br/>
</div>
<div class="TechnicalStuff">
<bdo dir="ltr">
Request: POST http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php, from 130.203.176.150 via cp1055 frontend ([208.80.154.225]:80), Varnish XID 2270366995<br/>Forwarded for: 130.203.176.150<br/>Error: 503, Service Unavailable at Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:30:37 GMT
</bdo>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
<p>Your cache administrator is <a href="https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18903">nobody</a>.</p>
</div>
<script>lines('9ea09f adb1af bdc3bf ccd4cf');</script>
</body>
</html>
This is taken straight from the bot that received it.
Version: unspecified
Severity: major
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59788