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 - response is the empty string on an editable page
Protected page @ testwiki - response is absent on a protected page
Manchester @ enwiki - response is true on an editable page
Barack Obama @ enwiki - 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

Dan Garry

Product Manager, Search and Discovery

Wikimedia Foundation