As you might have noticed, there have recently been many changes to MediaWiki API. This is in part due to my push for API 2.0http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap/Naming_Cleanup, which will include API versioning, streamlined JSON-only result format, localized warnings and errors, naming cleanuphttp://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_roadmap/Naming_Cleanup, and many other changes. On top of that, there has been various proposals for content-oriented RESTful API (as oppose to SQL-like query API). To learn more or to participate in the planning or implementation, see proposed changes http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/API_Future or contact me directly.

* * There will be a conferencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Wikipedia_Dayin New York tomorrow, Feb 23rd, at NYU. I intend to do an introductory API presentation there, partially covering some of the proposed changes. Please stop by if you want to discuss API, or just to say hi.

*Important reminder to API users*: Please ensure you set the user agent string to contain both the name of your tool, the framework it uses, and a way to contact you. See User-Agent policyhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User-Agent_policy. API users that do not follow this policy may be banned at any moment. Example:* MyCoolTool/1.1 (http://example.com/MyCoolTool/; MyCoolTool@example.com) BasedOnSuperLib/1.4*

Lastly, to minimize traffic on this list, I will try to batch announcements into one email, unless there is an immediate breaking change.

* prop=pageprops & ppprom=... now allows multiple valueshttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/41590/ (anomie) * Extensions: $wgAPIGeneratorModules is now obsoletehttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/46196/, the list of generators is now dynamic (yurik) * HTML-formatted results (format=*fm) will now wrap long lineshttps://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/37188/(waldir)

--yurik