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From: Jon Robson <jrobson(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 12:49 PM
Subject: INFO: Announcing removal of noimages parameter from deprecated
action=mobileview API
To: <mediawiki-api-announce(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
The action=mobileview API was marked as deprecated at the end of the 2019
[1]. As we refactor code relating to this API we have decided to remove
support for its `noimages` parameter which allowed users to request a page
with img tags replaced with spans.
Note: The `noimages` parameter also appeared inside the action=parse API
[2] however was a no-op. It will no longer appear on action=parse requests
as a result of this change.
For clients wanting to perform img tag removals, this will need to be done
by those scripts themselves, the PHP code is provided for your reference [3]
If you have any questions or concerns about this change, please feel free
to follow up on the Phabricator ticket [4].
[1]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210808
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=parse&format=js…
[3]
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/+/6265…
[4]
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262580