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[doc] Announce support of MediaWiki < 1.23 is to be dropped

Bug: T268979
Change-Id: I019ff7c3d5fa3a5a1285ea19a6aaf3164e0e6cfb
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M pywikibot/site/__init__.py
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywikibot/site/__init__.py b/pywikibot/site/__init__.py
index 28e6d8e..1a73ac8 100644
--- a/pywikibot/site/__init__.py
+++ b/pywikibot/site/__init__.py
@@ -1470,6 +1470,14 @@
             pywikibot.error(msg)
             raise
 
+        if MediaWikiVersion(version) < '1.23':
+            warn('\n'
+                 + fill('Support of MediaWiki {version} will be dropped. '
+                        'It is recommended to use MediaWiki 1.23 or above. '
+                        'You may use every Pywikibot 5.X for older MediaWiki '
+                        'versions. See T268979 for further information.'
+                        .format(version=version)), FutureWarning)
+
         if MediaWikiVersion(version) < '1.19':
             raise RuntimeError(
                 'Pywikibot "{}" does not support MediaWiki "{}".\n'

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