ivanhercaz / ivanhercaz/CanaryBot
"WARNING: API error modification-failed"
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Description
The bot got this error when it tried to edit the item [Q26682121](https://wikidata.org/wiki/Q26682121).
### Change tried
```
Q26682121
- en-desc: Redgrave, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, IP22.
+ Replacement: Redgrave, Mid Suffolk, Suffolk, IP22
```
### Error
```
WARNING: API error modification-failed: Item [[Q26545861|Q26545861]] already has label "Pond Farm House" associated with language code en, using the same description text.
Edit to page [[wikidata:Q26682121]] failed:
modification-failed: Item [[Q26545861|Q26545861]] already has label "Pond Farm House" associated with language code en, using the same description text. [messages:[{'name': 'wikibase-validator-label-with-description-conflict', 'parameters': ['Pond Farm House', 'en', '[[Q26545861|Q26545861]]'], 'html': {'*': 'El elemento Q26545861 ya tiene la etiqueta "Pond Farm House" asociada con el código de idioma en, usando el mismo texto de descripción.'}}]; help:See https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php for API usage. Subscribeto the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.]
```
### Issues related
- #1 (closed and solved).
- #2 (pending to solved).
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Research direction
Start by tracing the bot operation that attempted to edit Q26682121 and its handling of the Wikidata API's modification-failed response. Review related issues #1 and #2; done should mean that this conflict is handled or reported according to the issue's intended resolution.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100