Could you be passing an improper timestamp in the post request?
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Jim Tittsler <j...@onnz.net> wrote: > On 17/07/09 16:18, Dan Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Jim Tittsler<j...@onnz.net> 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? > > > > 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. > > I think there is something else going on. Writing to this particular > page now *always* fails through the API. It always succeeds when I edit > through the web. The history of the page says only the bot and my test > edits have been performed on the page. The bot continues to write to > other pages. Are there other conditions that get reported as edit > conflicts? > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api >
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