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Brion Vibber wrote:
During development of the new API, the old query.php was left in place on Wikimedia's sites to provide backwards-compatibility for tools and user scripts using it.
However it's a bit of a burden to keep it around -- being nearly unmaintained it suffers from "bitrot":
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I'm currently scheduling the Death of query.php for Monday, August 25 -- a little less than 4 weeks from today.
...now done.
query.php is dead! Long live api.php!
This gives interested parties a chance to either migrate their scripts to the current API ahead of time, or to start work on an adaptor to replace query.php -- transforming queries to send them to the new API and transforming the results back to a format compatible with the old one.
Guess nobody wanted an adaptor that badly. :)
- -- brion