On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:44 AM, <richardcav...@mail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm coding a Wikipedia bot framework (not using any existing framework) > for use on en-wiki. I'm a little confused by the documentation of edit > tokens. Which is the correct approach: > > 1. My bot obtains an edit token using the Main page as a nominal > title, saves the edit token and then uses it in every subsequent > attempt to edit. > > or > > 2. My bot queries each page to obtain an edit token before attempting > to edit.
Number 1. An edit token remains the same during a single session, so there is no need to request a page just for the edit token, at least not to do it more than once. You might add code to change the edit token every time you happen to request a page that contains one. -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
