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Originally from: http://sourceforge.net/p/pywikipediabot/patches/608/
Reported by: valhallasw
Created on: 2013-04-13 20:51:59
Subject: _getUserDataOld call from low-level getUrl
Original description:
From http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/pywikipedia-l/2012-October/007585.html :

I just wanted to put\(\) a simple page on a MediaWiki 1.16
instance, where I have to use screen scraping \(use\_api=False\).

There is something strange however:

There is an API call invoked by \_getBlocked:

/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&meta=userinfo&uiprop=blockinfo

Here's my backtrace:

File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 693, in get
expandtemplates = expandtemplates\)

File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 743, in \_getEditPage
return self.\_getEditPageOld\(get\_redirect, throttle, sysop, oldid, change\_edit\_time\)

File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 854, in \_getEditPageOld
text = self.site\(\).getUrl\(path, sysop = sysop\)

File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5881, in getUrl
self.\_getUserDataOld\(text, sysop = sysop\)

File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 6016, in \_getUserDataOld
blocked = self.\_getBlock\(sysop = sysop\)

File "pywikipedia/wikipedia.py", line 5424, in \_getBlock
data = query.GetData\(params, self\)

File "pywikipedia/query.py", line 146, in GetData
jsontext = site.getUrl\( path, retry=True, sysop=sysop, data=data\)


getUrl\(\), which is also called from API, seems always
to call \_getUserDataOld\(text\) where text is ... API output 
so it tries to do strange things on that and gives warnings
like 

Note: this language does not allow global bots.
WARNING: Token not found on wikipedia:pl. You will not be able to edit any page.

which is nonsense since the analyzed text is not HTML - only API output.

If getUrl\(\) is supposed to be a low-level call, why call \_getUserDataOld\(\)
there?

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/7461 

has introduced this call there.

It's easily reproducable by this:

import wikipedia
import config
config.use\_api = False
wikipedia.verbose = True
s = wikipedia.getSite\("pl", "wikipedia"\)
p = wikipedia.Page\(s, u"User:Saper"\)
c = p.get\(\)
c += "<\!-- test -->"
p.put\(c, u"Testing wiki", botflag=False\)

//Saper