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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
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?
Why is an edit API needed for reading a list of page names? Oh wait, it isn't! :)
The edit API is enabled on test.wikipedia.org for testing. If someday I hear from the API developers that it's ready to go, we'll see about turning it on elsewhere.
- -- brion