The patrol token is not being loaded correctly for earlier versions.
Since patrol was added in v1.14, until v1.16, the patrol token was the same as the edit token.
For 1.17-19, the patrol token must be obtained from the query list recentchanges.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rctoken=patrol&rclimit=1
| Subject | Repo | Branch | Lines +/- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fetch patrol token for MW < 1.20 | pywikibot/core | master | +65 -2 |
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T72936 Important tasks to be solved (tracking) | |||
| Open | Feature | None | T57880 Functionality existing in compat but missing from core (tracking) | ||
| Resolved | droid | T74206 Port patrol.py to core | |||
| Resolved | Mpaa | T85727 Fetching the patrol token for earlier versions | |||
| Resolved | jayvdb | T85725 token methods should use the list of tokens in paraminfo |
The dependency on T85725 is very soft. This could be fixed before it , but we wouldnt have a reliable way to determine if the site has patrol enabled, which would be nice to have so that tests can easily be disabled.
When logged out, rctoken=patrol includes a warning we can use to confirm the user doesnt have patrol rights (or, maybe, the site doesnt support patrol)
{
"warnings": {
"recentchanges": {
"*": "Action 'patrol' is not allowed for the current user"
}
},
...
}http://wiki.kerbalspaceprogram.com/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rctoken=patrol
Interestingly on wikia it does also return the warning: http://www.wikia.com/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rctoken=patrol
I also see it on wikisource, when I am (presumably) logged in, according to the pop-up I get.
http://en.wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rctoken=patrol
Sorry, when logged in pywikibot is OK.
Change 182690 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mpaa):
Fetch patrol token for MW < 1.20