> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:20:33 -0400
> From: bjor...@wikimedia.org
>
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <jay...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Did the change go live?
>
>
> Yes!
>
>
> > Did the wikis fall over?
> >
>
> If they did, no one told me about it or complained about it in any of the
> places I looked. Not that I personally looked in extremely many places, but
> I'd have expected it to make it to this mailing list or Phabricator if
> something important broke.
>
You can't expect the average user to go to Phabricator or post on this mailing
list. If you are lucky, they complain on the respective talk pages like [1] or
some other place.
I think, there is be quite a substantial amount of programs around which still
use the old interface and are broken now. Waiting for someone to notice and
fix...
Marco
[1]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3AGadget-Cat-a-lot.js&type=revision&diff=165244124&oldid=165227754#Not_working_2
>
> > Is there any ongoing analysis of the number of user agents (bots /
> > gadgets / etc) still not specifying continue method?
> >
>
> The log warnings I used before the change were removed as part of the
> change, since it doesn't seem particularly interesting anymore: we can't
> tell server-side whether a client is actually broken or just isn't using
> continuation at all.
>
> I can tell you that the gzip-compressed api-feature-usage log files were
> around 2.5G on June 1 (just before the final communication push), 1.1G on
> July 1 (just before the change), and only 46M on July 4 (after the change
> with the logging for this removed).
>
> Is there a common approach for gadgets to identify themselves to the
> > API - e.g. setting a custom user-agent?
> >
>
> Clients that cannot set the User-Agent header (such as gadgets and other
> scripts running in a browser) may use the Api-User-Agent header instead. If
> present, this header is prepended to the standard User-Agent header for
> purposes such as the api-feature-usage log and Special:ApiFeatureUsage.
>
>
> --
> Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
> Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
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