Slightly highjacking this thread, sorry in advance.
I'd much rather see effort put into the rewrite branch than trying to
remove support from trunk. There's a very-incomplete list of things to do
here[1] and some general brainstorming ideas. The original rewrite
proposal[2] said that we should branch for every release of MediaWiki
(1.20, 1.21, etc). If someone needs to run for an older version, they just
use an older branch.
It's also worth noting that there are still very important functions that
the API doesn't support yet like revision deletion[3] and
globalblocking[4]. (As an aside, I have a patch to screenscrape revdel's
nearly ready).
tl;dr: Focus on improving rewrite :)
[1]
-- Legoktm
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't say API is everything we need. I used http
for a similar
purpose once but I say running bots on a wiki without API support is
like playing Crysis 2 on a computer with Windows 98
Supporting non-API wikis is just a holding back and nothing more
besides I don't think any wiki now using very old versions or disabled
API.
Best for all
On 4/22/13, info(a)gno.de <info(a)gno.de> wrote:
I am not sure whether we need non-API-wiki
support anymore. We have the
rewrite branch for fully API support. And trunk release supports both
but it
fails with getAll method for some sites. Indeed I
am against a mixed
stucture who merged to API based site methods and cuts older methods
which
means they never works again. As demonstrated in
rewrite branch there
could
be exists more than one site object. We have
BaseSite for basic methods,
APISite for API call methods and DataSite for methods dealing with
Wikidata.
Why couldn't we have a site object for
non-API wikis? Maybe we do not
need
non-API support anymore. Ok, than we should
archive the actual framework
and
remove old code stuff, perhaps merge from or to
rewrite branch and hold
only
one framework, which would be easier to support
instead of doing the same
part twice as it is today.
Greetings
xqt
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Von: Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
An: Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Datum: 21.04.2013 22:42
Betreff: [Pywikipedia-l] Stop supporting non-API wikis
Hello all,
API is one of the most important features of MW and it has been used
on WMF wikis since 2009 If I recall correctly
I want to use API on everything remained (in PWB codes) in order to
reduce pressure on servers but this idea of supporting non-API wikis
is really annoying and unreasonable in my opinion
I think we must end supporting non-API wikis, If you're not agree with
me, tell me why not
Best
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