Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-131168-20190729043056/@comment-131168-20190730191350

Thanks. I went there and at least got enough advice I was able to come to a partial solution. I'll briefly explain it in case someone else searching for similar info stumbles into here.

Seems like the problem is related to API changes in versions of MediaWiki. I couldn't figure out how to force Pywikibot to work nice with the somewhat older version on Fandom, so decided to try finding an older version of Pywikibot altogether. I had some trouble with that, too, but I did find older versions of some of the files. Trying out replacing the modern version of api.py with several older ones eventually found success with the version from 2018-05-05. It still occasionally gives me a different kind of error and I have to tell it to start again (giving it a later point in the alphabet to continue from), but it gets enough done at a time that it's a workable solution for me.