[Mediawiki-api] BREAKING CHANGE: list=backlinks, embeddedin, imageusage no longer support titles=

Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at home.nl
Fri May 9 14:53:27 UTC 2008


When the backlinks module was introduced, it used the following syntax:

api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&titles=Foo

In July 2007, this was changed [1] to:

api.php?action=query&list=backlinks&bltitle=Foo

The first version was still supported for backwards compatibility, but 
threw a warning saying support would be removed soon. The 'soon' part 
wasn't exactly true (the warning was introduced 10 months ago), but it's 
really gonna happen now: titles= support for backlinks, embeddedin and 
imageusage has been discontinued as of r34518 [2]. This revision will go 
live on Wikimedia wikis some time in the next few days, and will be part 
of 1.13 and all later versions. Any client programs still relying on the 
old behavior should've been fixed a long time ago.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

[1] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=23774
[2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=34518



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