It looks as though my stats script has finally bitten the dust. Something has changed on the WMF side so when I run the script I get an api error.

Specifically the requests for prop=imageinfo with iiprop=user|extmetadata and generator=categorymembers ends up giving the following error after a while:

{
  "servedby": "...",
  "error": {
    "info": "[XadzewpAMEEAAEbO9GcAAADC] Caught exception of type WMFTimeoutException",
    "errorclass": "WMFTimeoutException",
    "code": "internal_api_error_WMFTimeoutException"
  }
}

Since the code is OLD it has come to the stage where it should be rebuilt from scratch (and pywikibot) rather than attempting a repair. If doing that we should also look to see which of the generated data we actually make use of.

There is still stats at wikiloves etc. for us to use though.

@Lokal_Profil Should this be changed to update tools for stats, or can it be closed?

In T235470#6751105, @AxelPettersson_WMSE wrote:

@Lokal_Profil Should this be changed to update tools for stats, or can it be closed?

I think this task can be closed. Instead we should probably open one about determining which stats to extract fro WL-events and how to extract them.

T273286 created for that.