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Description

Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1494/
Reported by: harriv
Created on: 2012-07-22 16:34:44
Subject: category.py listify cannot create a new page
Assigned to: xqt
Original description:
Error message:

Creating page \[\[Elavat henkilot\]\] via API
HTTPError: 500 Internal Server Error

WARNING: Could not open 'http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server is down. Retrying in 1 minutes...

This repats multiple times.

Version info:
Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r10457, 2012/07/15, 08:27:45\)
Python 2.6.6 \(r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48\)
\[GCC 4.4.5\]
config-settings:
use\_api = True
use\_api\_login = True
unicode test: triggers problem \#3081100


Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1494

Details

Reference
bz55180

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 2:25 AM
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This is not a bug but the normal way handling server errors: increasing the wait time and try again.

  • assigned_to: nobody --> xqt
  • status: open --> pending

I can open http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php with my browser ok, so Wikipedia server is working ok. Same bot also uses archivebot.py without problems \(editing and creating pages\).

Problem is related with big page size. Page with 3 articles goes thru, but page with 55000+ articles creates this error.

When the page is big, mediawiki API doesn't let the bot to import the content. It's nothing we can do right now and the bug is not related to PWB, try listifying smaller categories or break it to several files