On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.org wrote:
Some people have also begun talking about this issue on the bug " Make MediaWiki more RESTful": https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41837 in case you want to check that out.
I think this is the worst idea outlined on that kickoff page. I think Brian's comment sums it up perfectly for me: "not a fan of restful stuff in general, usually seems to be a solution in search of a problem" [0]. Adding more functionality to the API is great, and having OAuth (or something similar) would be fantastic--I'm really not convinced we need to to Completely Rewrite(tm) the API to accomplish this.
-Chad
[0] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41837#c15