I am using my trusty QuickStatements (PHP version) to make edits on Wikidata. Since today, I keep getting error messages on the Wikidata API, like such:
Waiting for mrjwiki: 5.2833333333333 seconds lagged.
The attempted edit does not take place. What's up with that?
This is the usual response for maxlag=# when delay of sending changes from Wikidata to wikis is too high.
But it's all kinds of wikis that show up. Something with the dispatcher?
Also, I can't edit via the API until this is resolved? Edits via the web interface work. OAuth seems to work as well.
Hmm, I think what tripped my code is that there was no code:'maxlag' in the response?
This is what I get from https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=query&maxlag=0:
{ "error": { "code": "maxlag", "info": "Waiting for enwiki: 5.4 seconds lagged.", "host": "enwiki", "lag": 5.4, "type": "wikibase-dispatching", "dispatchLag": 324, "*": "See https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes." }, "servedby": "mw1361" }
It appears that the third-party bot framework quietly swallows this and just throws an exception with the "info" field :-(
Hacked around it