*(apologies for cross-posting)*
Hello,
This is a significant change announcement relevant for some Wikibase API
users.
What's Changing?
Over the coming weeks, most Wikibase API modules will gain three new
parameters: returnto, returntoquery, and returntoanchor. Additionally,
these API modules may return tempusercreated and tempuserredirect fields in
their responses. These parameters are being added to support user
interaction flows related to IP Masking
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IP_Editing:_Privacy_Enhancement_and_Abuse_Mitigation>
.
Who’s Affected?
Only users who use the API to make anonymous edits are affected. If you
don’t use the API to make edits, or if you only make authenticated edits,
you can safely ignore these changes, and disregard the additional API
parameters and response data.
What You Need to Do
If you use the API to make anonymous edits, the response may contain a
tempusercreated string indicating the name of the temporary account that
was created, and a tempuserredirect nullable string. If the tempuserredirect
is not null, you should redirect the user to that URL to complete the setup
for the temporary account. Afterwards, the user will automatically be
returned to the current wiki; you can use the returnto, returntoquery,
and/or returntoanchor parameters in your original API request to control
the title, query, and anchor where the redirect returns to.
If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please don’t
hesitate to reach out to us in this ticket (T357024
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T357024>).
Cheers,
--
Mohammed S. Abdulai
*Community Communications Manager, Wikidata*
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