On 9/18/14, Daniel Friesen daniel@nadir-seen-fire.com wrote:
Every once in awhile I've found an idea for a service which would for one reason or another need to know what releases of MediaWiki exist and which ones are obsolete.
As far as I know, we don't have any sort of API or machine readable metadata at all declaring this information for services to use.
Once upon a time we did: https://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/MWReleases/?path... (I believe that was actually deployed around 1.17-ish).
I guess you could still just fetch https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:MW_stable_release_number to get the info, but having a json file somewhere sounds like a good idea provided there's actually people wanting to use it and it wouldn't inconvenience whomever is charged with updating it too much.
--bawolff