On *Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Marco F <*

*maic23 at live.de <wikitech-l%40lists.wikimedia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BWikitech-l%5D%20API%20BREAKING%20CHANGE%3A%20Default%20continuation%20mode%20for%0A%20action%3Dquery%20will%20change%20at%20the%20end%20of%20this%20month&In-Reply-To=%3CDUB127-W101D748884FAB0EF70713FC4910%40phx.gbl%3E>> wrote:> *> You can't expect the average user to go to Phabricator or post on this mailing

list. If you are lucky, they complain on the respective talk pages like [1] or some other place.

I think, there is be quite a substantial amount of programs around which still use the old interface and are broken now. Waiting for someone to notice and fix...

Marco

[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3AGadget-Cat-...

I'm sure there are still some out there, but probably not as many as you think. I know that there aren't any gadgets or user scripts on enwiki or mediawikiwiki that use the old syntax, because I cleaned them up personally. I also got myself global interface editor rights and fixed all the gadgets in the MediaWiki namespace on every Wikimedia wiki. That still leaves bots, other external tools, and user scripts that aren't gadgets, so it's hard to say what's still left to fix. But most of the important gadgets are working, at least.

Another good idea might be to look through the public repositories for external tools and bot frameworks to check whether they have implemented the change. I think we can safely assume that the big ones like Huggle, Twinkle and AWB have been fixed, due to the lack of noise at enwiki's technical village pump. But there may well be smaller external tools out there that still need fixing.

Also, if anyone is interested, I have compiled a list of scripts on all WMF wikis that may need updating.[1] It has 129 pages in at the moment, although some are false positives, and some are personal scripts for inactive users that we don't need to bother with.

Strad

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr._Stradivarius/Query-continue