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TASK DESCRIPTION I propose to give up 1.23-1.26 MediaWiki support with **Pywikibot 8** which perhap come at the end of this year, wich also drops Python 3,5 due to T301908 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T301908>. MW 1.23 is a LTS published 2014 but the life cycle ended in 2017 already. MW 1.24-1.26 had reached their life time in 2016-2017 too. **Advantages** - The main advantage is to support MediaWiki API formatversion 2 (T121334 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T121334>) which is recommended [1]. The new format came with MW 1.25 but is not stable with 1.26. With formatversion 2 there are useful changes [2]. The general theme is that the ApiResult arrays now have more metadata especially for Wikibase items and the new format makes this easier to handle. - The following modules can be simplified if dropping old code [3]: - api - logentries - pages - revision - apisite - site generators - siteinfo - tokenwallet - Tests are always difficult for old MW versions. Dropping old code improves the code health as well as the maintability - Old code is still available with version the given tags. We also can provide an older release at https://pywikibot.toolforge.org like we do for python 2 support (maybe we can drop te later). [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Data_formats#JSON parameters [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:JSON_version_2 [3] https://codesearch.wmcloud.org/pywikibot/?q=1%5C.2%5B3-7%5D&i=nope&files=&excludeFiles=&repos= TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306637 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Xqt Cc: srishakatux, Seppl2013, WolfgangFahl, JAnD, Andre_Engels, Pywikibugs, matej_suchanek, Lokal_Profil, Legoktm, JJMC89, Salween, Huji, Lee, Larske, kscanne, Basilicofresco, Rubin16, Multichill, valhallasw, Meno25, Dalba, Dvorapa, Framawiki, Mpaa, Strainu, Majavah, Ricordisamoa, MarcoAurelio, Aklapper, Xqt, pywikibot-bugs-list, Jyoo1011, JohnsonLee01, SHEKH, Dijkstra, Khutuck, Zkhalido, Viztor, Wenyi, Tbscho, MayS, Mdupont, Altostratus, Avicennasis, mys_721tx, jayvdb, Masti, Alchimista
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