Husky added a comment.
> Because it prevents creating client only solutions and requests would need to be routed via proxy which would do the authentication. This would increase overall complexity. +1. We're in a really fortunate position to being one of the very few large websites with an API that is accessible without authentication. It's really beneficial when explaining concepts of API's and knowledge graphs to students and they //don't// need to go through hoops to understand authentication and other things before doing a simple HTTP GET call. It's in our mission that we want to share the sum of human knowledge. It doesn't say anywhere that we should make that as easy as possible, but i think we should. Putting up an authentication layer is making it harder for people to access our knowledge. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T290300 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Husky Cc: Husky, Abbe98, FRomeo_WMF, GFontenelle_WMF, AntiCompositeNumber, Legoktm, Fuzheado, LucasWerkmeister, ttaylor, CBogen, Gehel, Aklapper, Zache, BPirkle, sdkim, hnowlan, RKemper, Zbyszko, Invadibot, MPhamWMF, maantietaja, Akuckartz, Nandana, Namenlos314, Lahi, Gq86, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, EBjune, merbst, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, Xmlizer, jkroll, Wikidata-bugs, Jdouglas, aude, Tobias1984, Manybubbles, Mbch331
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