API query failed: 503 Server Error:

[SpelunkerToday]

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/data/project/copyvios/www/python/src/app.py", line 38, in inner
return func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/data/project/copyvios/www/python/src/app.py", line 103, in index
query = do_check()
File "./copyvios/checker.py", line 44, in do_check
_get_results(query, follow=not _coerce_bool(query.noredirect))
File "./copyvios/checker.py", line 58, in _get_results
page.get() # Make sure that the page exists before we check it!
File "/data/project/copyvios/git/earwigbot/earwigbot/wiki/page.py", line 587, in get
rvprop="content|timestamp", rvslots="main")
File "/data/project/copyvios/git/earwigbot/earwigbot/wiki/site.py", line 708, in api_query
return self._api_query(kwargs)
File "/data/project/copyvios/git/earwigbot/earwigbot/wiki/site.py", line 246, in _api_query
raise exceptions.APIError("API query failed: {0}".format(exc))
APIError: API query failed: 503 Server Error: Service Unavailable for url: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php

[earwig]

Not seeing this error now, so I assume it was an intermittent issue?

[SpelunkerToday]

I assume it was. It happened often in the 6 hours before reporting. May be WMF servers under pressure