I feel that bot operators should actively pay attention to the technical aspects of the community and the mailing lists. So, the bot operator who never updates their software, doesn't pay attention to the announcements, and ignores api warnings should be blocked after the deadline. Bot operators do not operate in a vacuum, and should never run bots just for the sake of running them. Community should always be able to find and communicate with the bot operators. Obviously we should not make sudden changes (except in the security/breaking matters), and try to make the process as easy as possible. The rawcontinue param is exactly that, simply adding it will keep the logic as before. Lastly, I again would like to promote the idea discussed at the hackathon -- a client side minimalistic library that bigger frameworks like pywikibot rely on, and that is designed in part by the core developers. See the proposal at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Minimalistic_MW_API_Cli… On Jun 3, 2015 2:29 PM, "John Mark Vandenberg" <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list Mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce