On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:40:20AM -0700, Robert Chin wrote: > There appears to be some sort of bug affecting a subset of pages that > started happening yesterday night. Certain <img src=> tags on > Wikipedia's API are being served with an invalid URL, missing the > scheme in front: > > <img src="//bits.wikimedia.org/skins-1.17/common/images/magnify-clip.png"> > > This is seen on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Cereal > > However certain other pages, such as > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Actinide appear to > be fine. > > Please let me know if this e-mail should go to some Wikipedia list instead.
This is due to the change to protocol-releative URIs. See [1] for details of the feature, and for the announcement on how this affects the API. [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/wiki/MediaWiki_1.18#Protocol-relative_URLs [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2011-July/000023.html _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
