When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it "the API" worked well. But now we've got a Parsoid API, Gabriel's work on a REST content API, Gabriel's work on an internal storage API, and more on the way. So just saying "the API" is getting confusing.
So let's bikeshed a reasonably short name for it that isn't something awful like "the api.php API". I'm horrible at naming.
Whatever we decide, it will eventually be referred to as "the old API," not out of disrespect, but out of longing and nostalgia.
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) bjorsch@wikimedia.org wrote:
When api.php was basically the only API in MediaWiki, calling it "the API" worked well. But now we've got a Parsoid API, Gabriel's work on a REST content API, Gabriel's work on an internal storage API, and more on the way. So just saying "the API" is getting confusing.
So let's bikeshed a reasonably short name for it that isn't something awful like "the api.php API". I'm horrible at naming.
-- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation
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