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Error creating Work Items via Az Devops API and Powershell

Hi, I'm trying to develop a PowerShell script to create a workitem in azure devops following this post : https://community.dynamics.com/blogs/post/?postid=61631256-4360-4b07-b343-43a855173cec

but i'm getting this error:

Invoke-RestMethod :

The controller for path '/orgname/projectname/apis/wit/workitems/$task' was not found or does not implement IController.
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+ Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method POST -Headers $AzureDevOpsAutheni ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommand

My script:

$AzureDevOpsPAT = 'blablabla'

$AzureDevOpsAuthenicationHeader = @{Authorization = 'Basic '+
[Convert]::ToBase64String([Text.Encoding]:: ASCII.GetBytes(":$($AzureDevOpsPAT)")) }

$OrganizationName = "orgname"

$UriOrganization= "https://dev.azure.com/$($OrganizationName)/"

$WorkItemType = "task" #set there the WorkItemType

$WorkItemTitle = "Test from Powershell" #set the Title

$ProjectName = "projectname"; # set the ProjectName

$uri = $UriOrganization + $ProjectName + "/apis/wit/workitems/$" + $WorkItemType + "?api-version=5.1"

echo $uri

$body="[
   {
       `"op`": `"add`",
       `"path`": `"/fields/System.Title`",
       `"value`":`"$($WorkItemTitle)`"
   }
]"

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $uri -Method POST -Headers $AzureDevOpsAuthenicationHeader -ContentType "application/json-patch+json" -Body $body