I've noticed something a little strange about the "editable" key that the mobileview API returns. It seems it's either "true" or the empty string if the page is editable, or either "false" or absent from the response if the page is not editable. Whether it goes for the empty string/absent or true/false approach seems to vary from wiki to wiki.
Examples (make sure you're not logged in on an admin account when you click these, because admin accounts can edit almost all pages):
- Foo @ testwiki https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&page=Foo&prop=editable - response is the empty string on an editable page - Protected page @ testwiki https://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&page=Protected_page&prop=editable - response is absent on a protected page - Manchester @ enwiki https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&page=Manchester&prop=editable - response is true on an editable page - Barack Obama @ enwiki https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=mobileview&page=Barack%20Obama&prop=editable - response is false on a protected page
Does anyone know why this is? It'd be nice if this could be changed, because it's a pain to deal with things like this in a strongly-typed language like Java.
Thanks, Dan