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API should not return an error on batched deletions
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Pages with a large number of revisions are now deleted in batches of them since T198176: Mediawiki page deletions should happen in batches of revisions. However API returns an error when the deletion is scheduled successfully.

on pywikibot delete.py
pywikibot.data.api.APIError: delete-scheduled: The page "Викивести:Време/Европа/Босна и Херцеговина/Бања Лука/ветар правац" is scheduled for deletion. Please be patient. [help:See https://sr.wikinews.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.]
<class 'pywikibot.data.api.APIError'>
CRITICAL: Closing network session.
on APISandbox
{
    "error": {
        "code": "delete-scheduled",
        "info": "The page \"\u0412\u0438\u043a\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0441\u0442\u0438:\u0412\u0440\u0435\u043c\u0435/\u0415\u0432\u0440\u043e\u043f\u0430/\u0421\u0440\u0431\u0438\u0458\u0430/\u0412\u0435\u043b\u0438\u043a\u043e \u0413\u0440\u0430\u0434\u0438\u0448\u0442\u0435/\u0443\u0441\u043b\u043e\u0432\u0438\" is scheduled for deletion. Please be patient.",
        "*": "See https://sr.wikinews.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at &lt;https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce&gt; for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes."
    },
    "servedby": "mw1341"
}

Pywikibot scripts terminates abruptly because of the API error message which causes handling requests like T212346 to be slower than they should be. Thank you.

Event Timeline

Anomie moved this task from Unsorted to In Dev on the MediaWiki-Action-API board.
Anomie subscribed.

I think there's no bug in pywikibot here. The addition of scheduled deletions to MediaWiki seems to have not been integrated well with the API.

Marking as a regression and blocking the 1.32 release.

Change 480964 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anomie; owner: Anomie):
[mediawiki/core@master] ApiDelete: Handle batched deletions properly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/480964

Change 480964 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] ApiDelete: Handle batched deletions properly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/480964

Change 480991 had a related patch set uploaded (by Anomie; owner: Anomie):
[mediawiki/core@REL1_32] ApiDelete: Handle batched deletions properly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/480991

Reedy removed a project: Patch-For-Review.

Change 480991 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@REL1_32] ApiDelete: Handle batched deletions properly

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/480991

Note the fix should be deployed to Wikimedia wikis with 1.33.0-wmf.12, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.33/Roadmap for a schedule.