On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Brion Vibber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > As you may know, the current MediaWiki API was based on an earlier > interface, the BotQuery extension accessed via query.php. > > During development of the new API, the old query.php was left in place > on Wikimedia's sites to provide backwards-compatibility for tools and > user scripts using it. > > However it's a bit of a burden to keep it around -- being nearly > unmaintained it suffers from "bitrot": > > * Queries sometimes break due to backend changes > > * Security problems are sometimes discovered and must be patched > > > We've been reluctant to just turn it off since some user scripts still > use it (Lupin's Popups are rumored to be the most popular such), but I'd > like to go ahead and plan to kill it. > > I'm currently scheduling the Death of query.php for Monday, August 25 -- > a little less than 4 weeks from today. > > This gives interested parties a chance to either migrate their scripts > to the current API ahead of time, or to start work on an adaptor to > replace query.php -- transforming queries to send them to the new API > and transforming the results back to a format compatible with the old one.
So far, I've found two things query.php does which api.php does not: * give bit depth of image (not exactly critical for my purposes, though) * for redirect pages, give the redirect target (this could affect a tool of mine) I'll report more as I find them. Magnus _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
