Hi. These errors became too frequent in last few days. Here’s a stacktrace for the error: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value (JSON String, Number, Array, Object or token 'null', 'true' or 'false') at [Source: REDACTED (`Strea…

Commons upload by URL: Unexpected character ('<' (code 60)): expected a valid value

Rory August 28, 2025, 3:43pm 2

@DaxServer - do you think this might be related to the issues discussed in the Invalid credentials message from Wikidata thread?

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