(500) Internal Server Error when logging in

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#88 (500) Internal Server Error when logging in

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: nobody

Labels: None

Updated: 2012-06-03

Created: 2012-04-24

Creator: Fraser

Private: No

When creating a new instance of the Site class for http://en.wikipedia.org, the following error occurs:

The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. Retrying in 60 seconds.

Perhaps something to do with the recent 1.20wmf1 deployment? See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20/wmf1/overview#API_and_bot-facing_changes

Discussion

Fraser - 2012-04-24

Having done some more poking around, this seems to be a result of trying to access http://en.wikipedia.org/w/query.php? at the end of the GetInfo() function.

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CodeDriller - 2012-04-24

status: open --> closed-fixed
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CodeDriller - 2012-04-24

Yes, I see, thanks for reporting that.

The problem is bigger. MediaWiki API versioning system is broken in English Wikipedia: when http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?version is called, no version numbers are shown, just $Id$.

Temporary solution applied in version 2.100.

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GanZ - 2012-05-02

Looks like related problem (so, I didn't start the new bug): bot can't get large categories with at least 200 items - it gets only first 200 items.

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CodeDriller - 2012-05-02

status: closed-fixed --> open-postponed
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CodeDriller - 2012-05-02

This issue depends on following MediaWiki bugs now:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35885
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33287

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CodeDriller - 2012-06-03

Fixed in version 2.101. Changes were made to accommodate to broken MediaWiki bot interface versioning system.

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CodeDriller - 2012-06-03

status: open-postponed --> closed-fixed
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GanZ - 2012-08-07

Well, now it happened again: bot doesn't get api version and doesn't obtain large categories.

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CodeDriller - 2012-08-07

API version is no longer available, because API developers have discarded versioning system completely, at least for now.

Large categories are obtained completely for me. Please provide some details: site, category, code...

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GanZ - 2012-08-07

I apologize for the anxiety - I used DotNetWikiBot version 2.100. 2.101 works fine.

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