Last modified: 2013-10-24 22:07:14 UTC
Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/bugs/1494/ Reported by: harriv Created on: 2012-07-22 16:34:44 Subject: category.py listify cannot create a new page Assigned to: xqt Original description: Error message: Creating page \[\[Elavat henkilot\]\] via API HTTPError: 500 Internal Server Error WARNING: Could not open 'http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php'. Maybe the server is down. Retrying in 1 minutes... This repats multiple times. Version info: Pywikipedia \[http\] trunk/pywikipedia \(r10457, 2012/07/15, 08:27:45\) Python 2.6.6 \(r266:84292, Dec 26 2010, 22:31:48\) \[GCC 4.4.5\] config-settings: use\_api = True use\_api\_login = True unicode test: triggers problem \#3081100
This is not a bug but the normal way handling server errors: increasing the wait time and try again.
- **assigned_to**: nobody --> xqt - **status**: open --> pending
I can open http://fi.wikipedia.org/w/api.php with my browser ok, so Wikipedia server is working ok. Same bot also uses archivebot.py without problems \(editing and creating pages\).
Problem is related with big page size. Page with 3 articles goes thru, but page with 55000+ articles creates this error.
- **status**: pending --> open
When the page is big, mediawiki API doesn't let the bot to import the content. It's nothing we can do right now and the bug is not related to PWB, try listifying smaller categories or break it to several files