Gerrit change 135283 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/135283/> will
cause action=logevents to return an error if both the letitle and leprefix
parameters are specified. Previously specifying both of these parameters
would apply both filters, making leprefix pointless if letitle matches the
prefix or returning no results if not.
The expected impact of this change is low, as no uses of this parameter
combination were logged in the time period checked.
If any client is affected by this change, it may simply remove leprefix
when letitle is specified.
This change will be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.24wmf7, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
Gerrit change 133955 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133955/>, which I
plan to merge on Thursday for deployment to WMF wikis with
1.24wmf7<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap>,
will cause the API to report an error when action=edit is used with the
"redirect" parameter and none of "appendtext", "prependtext", or
"section=new" are used. This will occur regardless of whether the page
being edited is actually a redirect.
API action=edit has a "redirect" parameter, which will automatically edit
the target page if the supplied title is a redirect. The original intention
of this feature was to be used in combination with appendtext or
section=new for posting notifications to user talk pages without having to
first check whether the page is a redirect (see bug
24330<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24330>).
But as currently implemented it will perform the edit even when replacement
page text is supplied, which is extremely prone to error: while reviewing
the patch proposing this change, I reviewed several scripts and bots that
were logged as submitting API requests with this combination of parameters
and every one would make erroneous edits when the target page is a redirect.
Clients not using the "redirect" parameter to action=edit or clients that
use it in combination with "appendtext", "prependtext", or "section=new"
will not be affected by this change. Affected clients have several options
for coping with this change, such as:
- Stop supplying the "redirect" parameter to action=edit, which will
edit the redirect page itself.
- When fetching the page content to transform it for the edit, use the
"redirect" parameter to action=query and submit the edit to the target page
directly (and without using the "redirect" parameter to action=edit) rather
than via the redirect title.
- Use appendtext, prependtext, or section=new instead of loading the
page's wikitext and appending or prepending content on the client side.
- Detect the redirect when fetching the page content and treat the
unexpected redirect as an error condition. Or handle the error returned by
action=edit in whatever manner is appropriate to your script, bot, or tool.
See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the
deployment schedule.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation