On 2 December 2015 at 13:55, S Page <spage@wikimedia.org> wrote:
You can use the URL of a page on a client wiki with action=wbgetentities.

That's true, and obvious to us, but often represents a barrier to third party users. From the technical side, there's also the performance implications of having chains of separate, dependent API requests on clients. Little things like this can make a difference. :-)

Thanks,
Dan

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Dan Garry
Lead Product Manager, Discovery
Wikimedia Foundation