Interesting situation. For now I am just requesting a large number of results per page in order to get to the first result in namespace 6. I'm submitting an entry to ADC2<http://code.google.com/android/adc/>with queries that specify the cmnamespace parameter, just in case it starts working again. However, I won't be able to change it after the deadline. So long as use of the cmnamespace parameter doesn't suddenly start raising an error, I'll be happy :)
Karl On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Brad Jorsch <[email protected]>wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:01:29AM -0500, Karl Ostmo wrote: > > > > Have I stumbled upon a bug? > > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19640 > > Basically, Domas decided on July 10 that use of cmnamespace was > overloading the servers in some manner (which manner, specifically, is > unknown), so he broke the cmnamespace parameter in about the worst > possible way in a live hack to the site. > > On July 11 a change was made in SVN to at least give people an error > instead of silently ignoring the parameter, on July 13 that was changed > to a warning, and on July 15 a change was made to allow the parameter to > work at the expense of not necessarily giving cmlimit results before > needing a cmcontinue. But in the month since then, no one with the > appropriate access has bothered to use any of those changes to fix the > original incredibly-broken live hack, so that incredibly-broken live > hack is still causing us issues. > > I've heard rumors that they may be (FINALLY!) getting ready to sync all > the changes from the last two months, which will finally fix the bug on > Wikipedia. > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > -- Code or be coded.
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