[Mediawiki-api] Write API should be restricted to logged-in users only

[Sergey Chernyshev]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think it's a good idea to assume
that API is only for bots - after all bot can use API on behalf of the user
and use their credentials (or lack of them). API definitely has JSON
implementation and can be used in GUI elements that are available to users
as much as for bots.

           Sergey


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Sergey Chernyshev
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On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Max Semenik <maxsem.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> API is intended for bots, not humans. Making it accept anon edits just
> allows bots to edit accidentally logged off. And the AssertEdit
> extension doesn't seem to work for API. What can be done about this?
>
> Simply adding an AlternateEdit hook call to ApiEditPage leads to ugly
> HTML output.
>
> --
>  Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]])
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