On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Maarten Dammers <maar...@mdammers.nl> wrote:
> HI Sumana ,
>
> Op 17-1-2012 18:11, Sumana Harihareswara schreef:
>> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/
>>
>> Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service API will be
>> disabled for 24 hours beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18,
>> as part of the anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout.
>>
>> Please forward and publicize so people who use and run bots are alerted.
> How is the api block implemented? What output is my bot going to get?
> Some details would be nice.
>
> Maarten
>

Probably set $wgEnableWriteAPI to false, if they do that when trying
to perform the disabled actions you'll received an 'unrecognized
action' error or something simiar.

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