[Mediawiki-api] query.php scheduled to die Monday, August 25

[Paolo Liberatore]

One thing I think cannot be done directly in api.php is
to return the pages that embed a *list* of templates.

So for example if I have template1, template2, template3,
with query.php I am able to return all pages embedding any
of these, while in api.php I have to make a query for
each one.

The problem is that eititle only accepts one title, and
that titles= is now ignored.

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Paolo Liberatore

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Magnus Manske wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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> > As you may know, the current MediaWiki API was based on an earlier
> > interface, the BotQuery extension accessed via query.php.
> >
> > During development of the new API, the old query.php was left in place
> > on Wikimedia's sites to provide backwards-compatibility for tools and
> > user scripts using it.
> >
> > However it's a bit of a burden to keep it around -- being nearly
> > unmaintained it suffers from "bitrot":
> >
> > * Queries sometimes break due to backend changes
> >
> > * Security problems are sometimes discovered and must be patched
> >
> >
> > We've been reluctant to just turn it off since some user scripts still
> > use it (Lupin's Popups are rumored to be the most popular such), but I'd
> > like to go ahead and plan to kill it.
> >
> > 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.
>
> So far, I've found two things query.php does which api.php does not:
> * give bit depth of image (not exactly critical for my purposes, though)
> * for redirect pages, give the redirect target (this could affect a
> tool of mine)
>
> I'll report more as I find them.
>
> Magnus
>
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