Last modified: 2013-04-22 16:16:05 UTC
The following api request got invalid XML content: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&list=recentchanges&rclimit=90&rcnamespace=0%7C2%7C4%7C6%7C10%7C14%7C100&rcprop=comment%7Cflags%7Cids%7Cloginfo%7Csizes%7Ctimestamp%7Ctitle%7Cuser&rcstart=2012-12-18T04:55:35Z After splitting the response by ">", the buggy line is ~line108, where "4::olduser", "5::newuser", "6::edits" are invalid XML attributes. <rc type="log" ns="2" title="User:Nikolaepa78" rcid="544675367" pageid="0" revid="0" old_revid="0" user="MBisanz" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2012-12-18T04:54:36Z" comment="WP:CHU" logid="46399621" logtype="renameuser" logaction="renameuser" 4::olduser="Nikolaepa78" 5::newuser="Rgsseht" 6::edits="2" /> 109 <rc type="edit" ns="0" title="Habítame Siempre" rcid="544675366" pageid="37430287" revid="528587893" old_revid="528474089" user="184.189.232.69" anon="" oldlen="29870" newlen="29871" ti mestamp="2012-12-18T04:54:35Z" comment="/* Weekly charts */ " /> similar bug happened before: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40299
The bug also appears on commons.wikimedia.org: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&list=recentchanges&rclimit=339&rcnamespace=0%7C2%7C4%7C6%7C10%7C14&rcprop=comment%7Cflags%7Cids%7Cloginfo%7Csizes%7Ctimestamp%7Ctitle%7Cuser&rcstart=2012-12-18T15:38:50Z <rc type="log" ns="2" title="User:Der Kreole" rcid="86419746" pageid="4497688" revid="0" old_revid="0" user="EugeneZelenko" oldlen="0" newlen="0" timestamp="2012-12-18T15:26:07Z" comment="Request on [[Commons:Changing username]]" logid="51572035" logtype="renameuser" logaction="renameuser" 4::olduser="Der Kreole" 5::newuser="Ucevista" 6::edits="69" />
The problem is that the format of keys for log entry parameters was changed, such that we can't use them directly as XML attribute names. Determining the best fix may require some discussion; I've posted[1] an RFC to the mediawiki-api mailing list. [1]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api/2012-December/002776.html
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/39221 will fix this particular bug. (No. 2 of Brad Jorsch's suggestion)
Change merged.
do you need to clean-up any "cache"? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=xml&list=recentchanges&rclimit=90&rcnamespace=0%7C2%7C4%7C6%7C10%7C14%7C100&rcprop=comment%7Cflags%7Cids%7Cloginfo%7Csizes%7Ctimestamp%7Ctitle%7Cuser&rcstart=2012-12-18T04:55:35Z still broken.
It takes some time till software changes get deployed. This one will go live on January 7 on enwiki AFAIR
Resolved fixed means it's been fixed in the development version of MediaWiki. That doesn't mean Wikimedia have updated their live copy to it.
The change should be in 1.21wmf7. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.21/Roadmap for the schedule for deploying that to various wikis; it is currently scheduled for January 9 for enwiki.
*** Bug 43455 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
