On 7/10/07, Daniel Cannon cannon.danielc@gmail.com wrote:
I've no problem deprecating the title parameter, but must we disable it? I see no problem with leaving it enabled, though discouraged, and having it function as it does now with all queries on which it previously worked. You know me and my backwards-compatibility nazism; the suggestion of removing the titles param altogether, one that is widely used by a multitude of bots and other client software, just sends shivers up my spine.
The shared parameter "titles=" is not being removed! It is the backbone of all the properties (prop=...). Only the 3 lists will stop using it (fairly soon), because it was done by accident - all lists must use their own, non-shared parameters so as not to interfere with properties.
== Current Efforts ==
- Some core code has been updated to allow Rollback implementation
(thanks Roan).
For the sake of clarity, this functionality is *not* included as part of the update on Wikimedia.
The rollback changes to the Article.php have been checked in and are now (presumably) live. There is no API action to let clients perform this action yet.
- API home page needs short coding examples of client access for
Python, PHP, C#, and Java clients (or any other languages if you prefer). Older examples are at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Yurik/Query_API/User_Manual#Usage
Ah, yes, I should get some of my code snippets up there ....
Please add snippets to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Client_Code
Thanks!