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
To operate correctly, action=purge needs to write to the database, which
means it should be done using a POST rather than a GET request.
As of Gerrit change 310560,[1] action=purge will begin emitting a warning
when used via GET. This should be deployed to WMF wikis with 1.28.0-wmf.20,
see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.28/Roadmap for the schedule.
Clients that use action=paraminfo to determine whether to use GET or POST
for an action should automatically switch to POST; any others should
manually switch to using POST for this action as soon as possible.
To check if your client's user agent is detected making such submissions,
you can also use ApiFeatureUsage[2] and look for 'purge-via-GET' once
1.28.0-wmf.20 is rolled out to wikis your client is using.
It is planned that this warning will be changed to an error during 1.29.
Let's avoid having a repeat of T142155,[3] update your code ASAP instead of
waiting until it breaks. Thanks.
[1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/310560/
[2]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiFeatureUsage
[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T142155
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
With the merge of Gerrit change 324224,[1] action=clearhasmsg will return
an error if used via GET rather than POST. The change should be deployed to
WMF wikis with 1.29.0-wmf.5, see https://www.mediawiki.org/
wiki/MediaWiki_1.29/Roadmap for the schedule.
This should have very low impact: analysis of logs indicates that only
Huggle[2] is using it, and Huggle has already been updated.
[1]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/324224/
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Huggle
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation