Hi I've been trying to use the API to get output into YAML format for processing in Ruby. Seems (see http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12120 ) that the API's YAML output is broken, as it does not escape quotes, colons followed by spaces etc. This causes output like title: Job: A Comedy of Justice when getting the Wikipedia page with that title; due to the unescaped second colon followed by space, Ruby's YAML.load chokes on this. Seems to me that this basically means that YAML output is not usable for getting data from wikipedia, quite a few of whose articles use ": " in titles or other fields. Any thoughts on how to circumvent this (without using XML as format; I know I can parse this from Ruby using REXML, but it ain't nearly as easy/clean as YAML), or on a time horizon for a fix/update? Any help or suggestions are appreciated, thanks, Loek Cleophas _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

or on a time horizon for a fix/update?

If it's not a hard fix, it might be great to see that come in in the next day or two so I can merge it into the 1.12.0 release.

Hmm, a related problem I see is that numeric strings aren't quoted. If I'm reading things properly, that means that, say, a page named "123" will decode with an integer value for the 'title' field instead of a string value. While some scripting languages will happily convert automatically between integer and string types, others are pretty picky about this.