Cross-posting this announcement from the wikitech-l mailing list. As I understand it, this policy change is intended to be clarifying rather than introducing new limits or hurdles for the existing API consumer community.

Discussion should happen on wiki please as folks will not be monitoring the cloud mailing lists for feedback.

Bryan

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Luca Martinelli [Sannita@WMF] sannita@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 6:21 AM Subject: [Wikitech-l] New draft text of WMF legal policy regarding use of APIs To: wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org

Hello all,

We have published a new draft text of WMF legal policy discussing the use of its APIs. The full page is available on Meta.[1]

We are currently looking for feedback on this draft text, and you're welcome to express your considerations on the text's talk page.[2]

This new document would be published at "API usage guidelines" on the Foundation wiki, unless community comments suggest the text should be appended on an existing page (for example, the User-Agent policy page),[3] or a different wiki.

This page is available for community comment for a period of at least two weeks or until new comments, questions, and suggestions have concluded.

Thank you in advance for your consideration!

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/API_Policy_Update_2024 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:API_Policy_Update_2024 [3] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Policy:User-Agent_p...

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