With 1.25wmf4, the warning described in the earlier email is now active on
WMF wikis. As a reminder, clients can specify the 'continue' parameter to
start using simplified continuation, or the 'rawcontinue' parameter to
suppress the warning while using the old style.
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <
bjorsch(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The API supports two methods for continuing
action=query when more results
are available, the simple method[1] and the raw method.[2] The raw method
is currently the default for historical reasons, but as the simple method
is much easier for new users to use *correctly* that really should be the
default.
To make this transition easy for clients, the current plan is to make the
change on the following timetable:
* Starting with 1.24wmf22,[3][4] action=query will recognize a
"rawcontinue" boolean input parameter. Clients that wish to continue using
the raw method for continuation should begin supplying this parameter with
all action=query queries.
* Sometime during the MediaWiki 1.25 development cycle, the API will begin
reporting warnings when neither "continue" nor "rawcontinue" are
supplied
with action=query.[5]
* Sometime during the MediaWiki 1.26 development cycle, simplified
continuation will become the default.[6]
Note this is also documented at <
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap#Simplified_…gt;.
See other sections on that page for additional planned API changes.
[1]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries
[2]:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Raw_Query_Continue
[3]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/154092/
[4]: See
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.24/Roadmap for the
schedule of deployments to WMF wikis.
[5]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160222/
[6]:
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/160223/
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation