The format of block expiry timestamps returned from list=users and
list=allusers has long been inconsistent. It was being returned in an
internal format (e.g. "20190918201053"), rather than the ISO 8601 format
used by the rest of the API (e.g. "2019-09-18T20:10:53Z").
The 'blockexpiry' property from these two modules will be changing to the
standard ISO 8601 format with 1.34.0-wmf.24. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap for a schedule of
deployment to Wikimedia wikis.
This change also brings the block information returned by list=users and
list=allusers fully in line with that already used for meta=userinfo and
'blocked' errors from various actions.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
When saving an edit is prevented by the AbuseFilter or SpamBlacklist
extensions, the error is currently reported as a successful API response
with a 'failure' code in the body.[1][2]
In the future, these will be reported as standard API errors.[3][4]
This change should be deployed to Wikimedia wikis with 1.34.0-wmf.23. See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.34/Roadmap for a schedule.
Clients that do not need to specially handle failures due to AbuseFilter or
SpamBlacklist will likely need no changes, as they probably already include
code to generically handle API error responses.
Clients that do handle AbuseFilter or SpamBlacklist failures specially will
need to be updated to check for error codes 'abusefilter-warning',
'abusefilter-disallowed', and/or 'spamblacklist' and handle them as they do
the current AbuseFilter and SpamBlacklist failures, if they want to
preserve their current special handling.
Note that edit failures due to CAPTCHAs from ConfirmEdit are not being
changed at this time. They will continue to be reported as before.[5]
[1]: AbuseFilter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P8988
[2]: SpamBlacklist: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P8990
[3]: AbuseFilter: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P8989
[4]: SpamBlacklist: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P8991
[5]: ConfirmEdit: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/P9076
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Senior Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation