Brion Vibber wrote:
I'm currently scheduling the Death of query.php for Monday, August 25 -- a little less than 4 weeks from today.
This gives interested parties a chance to either migrate their scripts to the current API ahead of time, or to start work on an adaptor to replace query.php -- transforming queries to send them to the new API and transforming the results back to a format compatible with the old one.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
This also means the death of the JavaScript check-usage, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Gadget-Check-usage.js as it relies on the proxying feature. Let's hope daniel's CheckUsage doesn't break. I would prefer not having it proxying via the toolserver...