Last modified: 2014-07-13 18:32:25 UTC
My bot has a huge watchlist (all pages that are created using this bot) of 116k pages. I'd like to empty it since pywikipediabot sometimes updates the local cache of these pages and it takes forever. The problem is that /raw results in an error (I assume it is timeout related): Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes. If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request: GET http://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/Speciaal:VolglijstBewerken/raw, from 10.64.0.105 via cp1067 cp1067 ([10.64.0.104]:3128), Varnish XID 1763728516 Forwarded for: 5.133.180.183, 91.198.174.104, 208.80.154.134, 10.64.0.105 Error: 503, Service Unavailable at Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:46:12 GMT retrying doesn't work. What can I do about this?
Workaround using pywikibot-core: import sys, pywikibot pywikibot.handleArgs() site = pywikibot.Site() site.login() if pywikibot.inputChoice('Are you sure you want to clear your watchlist on %s?' % site, ['yes', 'no'], ['y', 'n'], 'n') == 'n': sys.exit(1) while True: wt = pywikibot.data.api.Request(site=site, action='tokens', type='watch').submit()['tokens']['watchtoken'] wd = pywikibot.data.api.Request(site=site, action='watch', unwatch=True, generator='watchlistraw', gwrlimit=5000, token=wt).submit() if not wd['watch']: break else: print "%i pages removed..." % len(wd['watch']) (store in scripts/clearwatchlist.py; then python pwb.py clearwatchlist -site:... -lang:...)
This workaroud fixed the problem for me, thanks Merlijn! A more elegant solution would be nice (one in the mediawiki software), but this one works in the rare occasion of a huge watchlist.
