What user agent is your tool sending? On Monday, December 10, 2012, Strainu wrote:
> Hi, > > I tried falling back to non-api, but I seem to be unable to login > (probably a framework problem of some kind). Hopefully someone from > ops will shed light on this on Monday. > > Thanks, > Strainu > > 2012/12/8 Maarten Dammers <[email protected] <javascript:;>>: > > Hi strainu, > > > > Op 8-12-2012 11:21, Strainu schreef: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm running a robot that makes relatively small changes in ~250KB > >> pages. Starting from November, the change is made, but I recieve a 504 > >> error. This does not happen when making the change manually and it did > >> not happen earlier in the year (say, September). The code is a custom, > >> pywikipediabot-based robot on ro.wp. One example of such change is > >> > >> > http://ro.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lista_monumentelor_istorice_din_jude%C8%9Bul_Sibiu&diff=7172109&oldid=7125528 > >> > >> > >> Has something changed recently in the server configuration that would > >> cause such errors to occur? Is there somethnig I can do to avoid them, > >> except splitting the pages? > > > > Pages are rather large and should probably be split up in more manageable > > pieces. I wrote some documentation about that at > > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database/Improving_lists > > > > But that doesn't solve the problem. What is the timeout of the normal > > interface (a user editing) and what is the timeout for the api? Could > > someone (maybe ops) answer this question? > > I assume there is a difference between that. You could confirm this by > > falling back to a non-api write after you received a timeout . > > > > Maarten > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] <javascript:;> > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
