When list=allusers is used with auactiveusers, a property 'recenteditcount'
is returned in the result. In bug 67301[1] it was pointed out that this
property is including various other logged actions, and so should really be
named something like "recentactions".
Gerrit change 130093,[2] merged today, adds the "recentactions" result
property. "recenteditcount" is also returned for backwards compatability,
but will be removed at some point during the MediaWiki 1.25 development
cycle.
Any clients using this property should be updated to use the new property
name. The new property will be available on WMF wikis with 1.24wmf12, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the schedule.
[1]: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67301
[2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/130093/
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
prop=revisions has long ordered revisions by rev_id rather than timestamp
when returning results for a single page. In most cases this doesn't make a
difference, but for old pages imported from earlier versions of Wikipedia,
for revisions imported from Special:Import, and so on these orderings don't
always match.
prop=revisions has now been updated[1] to order by timestamp rather than
id. While this is technically a breaking change, it seems unlikely that any
clients will actually be broken by this.
This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.26wmf4, see
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.26/Roadmap for the schedule.
[1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/188843/
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
Previous announcement:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-api-announce/2014-September…
During the 1.25 development cycle, the API has been warning you if you're
specifying neither the "continue" nor "rawcontinue" parameters to
action=query. Recently this warning was targeted more specifically to
queries that actually return continuation data. The time is coming soon for
making this change, so please check your bots, bot frameworks, scripts, and
so on to ensure that you won't be broken when this change is made.
If you want to continue using your existing continuation code unchanged,
all you need to do is add the "rawcontinue" parameter to your action=query
queries.
If you'd rather change to the easier-to-get-right new style, add an empty
"continue" parameter to your initial action=query queries. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries for details on
the new mechanism.
If you do nothing, sometime in the next few months your code will likely
start thinking that no queries ever need continuation when the default is
changed to return the new 'continue' node rather than the old
'query-continue'. I'll send an announcement when the specific date is
decided, but I don't promise more than a week's notice.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation