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@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_c.... See other sections on that page for additional planned API changes.

[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/

-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation