[Mediawiki-api] MediaWiki API and Chinese language variants

[Jan Hecking]

On 1/30/2008 6:46 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote:
> Jan Hecking schreef:
>   
>> Can someone on this list confirm whether the action=raw method of the 
>> index.php API is supposed to support the variant parameter or not?
>>
>> If not then we have to either do the transcoding client-side or use the 
>> rendered HTML instead of the raw wiki markup. Both of these options 
>> don't sound very good.
>>   
>>     
> I don't really have the final answer to this, but I do know what 
> action=raw does internally: read an article's wikitext from the database 
> and output it without any processing. In that sense, one could say 
> action=raw isn't supposed to support variants, as it dumps the *raw* 
> wikitext content of an article. On the other hand, the alternatives kind 
> of suck, so I guess action=raw should support variants anyway. Has this 
> bug been filed at Bugzilla yet? If not, please do so.
>
> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
>   
Yes, I filed a bug for this already: 
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12683

Thanks,
Jan