UserWarning: Site wikipedia:be-tarask instantiated using different code "be-x-old"
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	Sep 28 2019, 11:16 PM

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When I run any script, this shows as warning: UserWarning: Site wikipedia:be-tarask instantiated using different code "be-x-old"

See example output:

kizule@kizule:~/development/pywikibot-core$ python3 pwb.py disambredir
/home/kizule/development/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/config2.py:1138: _ConfigurationDeprecationWarning: "sysopnames" present in our user-config.py is no longer a supported configuration variable. Please inform the maintainers if you depend on it.
  'depend on it.'.format(_key), _ConfigurationDeprecationWarning)
WARNING: /home/kizule/development/pywikibot-core/pywikibot/site.py:1893: UserWarning: Site wikipedia:be-tarask instantiated using different code "be-x-old"
  return pywikibot.Site(lang, site['code'])

Upstream: T235505: Rename be-x-old as be-tarask in Wikidata
Related: T111853: The href of be-tarask: interlanguage link points to the be-x-old domain

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	[tests] Suppress all warnings	pywikibot/core	master	+98 -48

Customize query in gerrit

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		Open		None	T235505 Rename be-x-old as be-tarask in Wikidata

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Kizule created this task.Sep 28 2019, 11:16 PM

Restricted Application added subscribers: pywikibot-bugs-list, Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptSep 28 2019, 11:16 PM

On which site are you running that script? And what do you mean with "running any script"? The warning is valid as long as the script finds this old identifier.

In T234147#5532111, @Xqt wrote:

On which site are you running that script? And what do you mean with "running any script"? The warning is valid as long as the script finds this old identifier.

Serbian Wikipedia. Running any script means running each script which pywikibot have throws this warning.

Dvorapa subscribed.Sep 29 2019, 10:47 AM

See T113461 and T111853

I have been getting this occasionally too. It does not occur every time (indeed, it happens rarely) so I am guessing there is a condition race going on somewhere in the code.

In further investigation: it happens only when I use pywikibot to query an item on Wikidata that has a sitelink for be_x_old, such as Q4048908. I am not sure why wikidata shows those sitelinks as be_x_old when the link itself goes to a page like be-tarask.wikipedia.or/wiki/foobar but in any case, I don't think fixing it upstream in Wikidata would be a realistic answer here. So my proposal is: when we run into be_x_old in a Wikidata query, we should gracefully ignore that and not show the warning above.

@Xqt what do you think?

Here is a piece of code that gives me the error every time:

page = pywikibot.Page(pywikibot.Site('en', 'wikipedia'), 'Category:Hidden categories')
item = pywikibot.ItemPage.fromPage(page)

The following patch might help: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/+/587863/
Two months waiting for a review

Huji updated the task description. (Show Details)May 28 2020, 11:59 AM

In T234147#6168512, @Dvorapa wrote:

The following patch might help: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMaintenance/+/587863/
Two months waiting for a review

Still occurres with the sample given by Huji above. Wikidata accepts be_x_old as site code but it does not accept be-tarask.

Well, the patch to wikis will be deployed next thursday, then we can test, how our issues with be-tarask/be-x-old changed

In fact, I think after the patch to wiki is deployed (next week) some additional step needs to be taken (@Ladsgroup described it as "rebuild the interwiki cache" but I am not sure the effort involved) so it may take a bit longer until we can actually test this.

Huji updated the task description. (Show Details)May 29 2020, 1:01 PM

Xqt added a project: Upstream.May 30 2020, 3:29 AM

In T234147#6176862, @Huji wrote:

(@Ladsgroup described it as "rebuild the interwiki cache" but I am not sure the effort involved) so it may take a bit longer until we can actually test this.

It's just one command to be run, quick and easy to do.

Huji updated the task description. (Show Details)Jun 7 2020, 1:21 AM

Meno25 subscribed.Jul 16 2020, 3:35 PM

Xqt closed this task as Resolved.Aug 3 2020, 10:18 AM

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Xqt removed Xqt as the assignee of this task.Aug 3 2020, 10:24 AM

Meno25 unsubscribed.Aug 3 2020, 4:13 PM

This isn't solved. The warning still occures.

Xqt added a subtask: T235505: Rename be-x-old as be-tarask in Wikidata.Jan 16 2021, 4:24 PM

Change 677383 had a related patch set uploaded (by Damian; author: Damian):

[pywikibot/core@master] [tests] Suppress all warnings

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/677383