On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Brian Gerstle <bgerstle(a)wikimedia.org> wrote: The decision to change the default came out of the same concerns that led to the improved action=help output and some of the other work I've been doing lately: We want to lower the barriers for using our API, which means that the default shouldn't be something user-hostile. The raw continuation is deceptively simple: it looks straightforward, but if you're using it with a generator, multiple prop modules, and meta or list modules, your client code has to know when to ignore the returned continuation for the generator, when to remove a module from prop and then when to re-add it, and when to remove the meta or list modules. I wouldn't be that surprised to learn that more people have it wrong than correct if their code supports using prop modules with generators. The new continuation actually is simple: you send the equivalent of array_merge( $originalParams, $continueParams ) and it just works. Yes, some of the same could be said for making format=json&formatversion=2 the default. In this case the formatversion=1 output is just annoying rather than actually hostile (although representing boolean true as a falsey string comes close), so at this time there's no plan to make that breaking change. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation