On 10/30/14 2:11 AM, Petr Bena wrote: > Hello, > > I am receiving lot of these warnings: > > WARNING: API query (revisions): The rvtoken parameter has been deprecated. > > According to current documentation for mediawiki at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback which I follow, in order > to get a rvtoken I should use this query: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvtoken=rollback&titles=Main%20Page&format=xml > > however that very query returns this warning. Is this a bug in > documentation?
Yes, the documentation is out of date. See bug 1. > Why do you first deprecate things and then, ages later, > update the docs? Shouldn't it be the other way? Mediawiki has worst > backward compatibility support I have ever seen and this is one of the > reasons for it. The docs on mediawiki.org are manually maintained. We're currently working towards automated docs that will stay up to date with the code, [1] says exactly which token type you need and from where. AFAIS, the deprecated method still works fine. How is backwards-compatability support not here? Also, are you subscribed to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list[2]? It's useful if you want to be aware of what changes are planned/happening for the API. For example, the tokens change was announced[3] back in August. -- Legoktm [1] https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?modules=rollback [2] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce [3] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2014-August/000067.html _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
