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
Hello,
Since the early days of REST API it provides two features that haven’t been widely used neither internally in the WMF nor by the community. Today in a clean-up pass over the API we have decided to deprecate and eventually remove those features to allow some long-needed refactorings and stability improvements of other, more important, endpoints.
The first one is the ability to query metadata about the page via the `/page/title/{title}`~[1] endpoint. The metadata includes properties like the latest revision number of the page, user who have made the last edit, whether the page is a redirect and similar. The backend storage model used to power the feature is quite unique in the system and has a significant maintenance cost without providing a clear benefit to users.
Another feature that’s never found it’s audience is the ability to get listings of revisions, titles and renders stored in RESTBase. These listings suffer from scaling issues and cannot work reliably with the data model we have.
We have, hence, opted to remove these unused and complex endpoints until there is some actual need for this data in the REST API when we can design and implement them better. Here’s the list of endpoints that are now deprecated and will be removed on May, 1st 2017:
• /page/title/
• /page/title/{title}
• /page/title/{title}/
• /page/revision/
• /page/revision/{revision}
In case you are using them please switch to using the MediaWiki Action API. In case you need assistance or have questions, feel free to reply to this e-mail or contact the Wikimedia Services team~[2].
Best regards,
Petr Pchelko
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Page_content/get_page_title_title
[2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Services
For performance reasons,[1] when "miser mode" is enabled, as it is on WMF
wikis, queries to list=allpages using apfilterredir=redirects and
apfilterredir=nonredirects may begin returning fewer than the requested
aplimit results before continuation. In extreme cases, zero results may be
returned.
This change[2] has just been made and will be deployed in the next few
hours so Special:AllPages may be re-enabled.
This is not classified as a breaking change since the API has reserved the
right (since 2009[3] if not earlier) to do this sort of thing as it may
become necessary.
[1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T160916
[2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/343681/
[3]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rSVN46845
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation