On 2014-08-06, 6:37 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Tim Starling wrote: >> How about "the action API"? The fact that it is organised in a >> hierarchy of actions distinguishes it from REST, which is organised as >> a hierarchy of objects. The term "action" also distinguishes it from RPC. > A quick count at <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php> says that there are > currently 52 &list=foo entries and 83 &action=foo entries. While these > numbers are inflated due to installed extensions, I'm hesitant to present > the MediaWiki Web API as an action API. Though you could perhaps argue > that listing is just another action. ;) ?action=query&list=* Technically speaking, listing *is* an action.
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