We are going to finally switch off the deprecated domain rest.wikimedia.org
by September 1st. This should not affect any REST API users, as this domain
has been officially deprecated since January & sunset since April [1].
Since then, requests to that domain have returned an error informing users
about the move.
Access to the REST API is exclusively through the main project domains,
following the following pattern:
https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc
Thank you for your cooperation,
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Gabriel Wicke
Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
[1]: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2016-April/085309.html
Hello, REST API users.
We are planning to deploy a new REST API endpoint for section editing next
week. This will replace the current /transform/sections/to/wikitext/
<https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/#!/Transforms/post_transform_sections_…>
end point, and will provide the same functionality in a more streamlined
and extensible format.
The existing end point is classified as unstable
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API_versioning#Unstable>, which guarantees
that we are making an effort to avoid breaking existing clients. According
to our data, the end point is basically unused at present, which is why we
are aiming at a fairly speedy deploy around Tuesday next week (Aug 30). If
you are using this end point at present & have concerns about its removal,
then let us know here.
Best regards,
the WMF Services Team <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Services>.
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Gabriel Wicke
Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation