Since it has been broken since the move to git[1] and is unlikely to
have been particularly useful anyway, I've just merged a change[2] to
remove the version information (and the 'version' parameter) from the
API help. This may result in a warning about an unrecognized
parameter.
Also, the 'version' property in the results from action=paraminfo will
now be the empty string. It was not removed completely at this time to
avoid breaking clients where accessing an undefined property is a
fatal error; however, it should be considered deprecated and may be
removed in a future version.
Note that version information for MediaWiki as a whole is still
available via prop=siteinfo.[3]
[1]:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35885
[2]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/43622/
[3]: e.g.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&meta=siteinfo
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Brad Jorsch
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation