Brion Vibber wrote:
Robert Ullmann wrote:
Quite so. However, it doesn't. And a *very* large amount of stuff is built on it. Would be good to fix it. Before changing the UI it relies on.
Question: How would the people maintaining it have known that it was going to be broken this morning?
They have known for the past SEVERAL YEARS that UI COMPONENTS FREQUENTLY CHANGE and they should use MACHINE-READABLE APIS, as they have been told repeatedly OVER THE YEARS.
...so where's the edit API?
(Yeah, I know. But my real point is, you'll have a hard time convincing people that the API is actually a finished product ready for prime time as long as its feature set, as enabled on Wikimedia sites, has a huge gaping hole like that.)