On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Tittsler<[email protected]> wrote: > I have a bot (using mwclient 0.6.2) that nightly updates some status > pages on WikiEducator.org. It has suddenly started failing with an > 'Edit conflict' but I can edit the page by hand and the script continues > to write to another page. Are there things that would prohibit the API > from writing to a page but still allow editing through the wiki? > > MediaWiki 1.14 > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
Yes. Specifically, an edit conflict will cause one attempt to fail and the next to succeed with no problem. For details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_conflict but essentially someone else changed the page while you were editing it and the wiki wants you to make sure you don't accidentally overwrite their changes. -- DCollins/ST47 Administrator, en.wikipedia.org Channel Operator, irc.freenode.net/#wikipedia Maintainer, Perlwikipedia module _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
