So is there a spec about the stable external format?
If you could include a version number of the format used by the data, it will be much easier to write compatible code and/or notice the changes immediately.
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:24 AM, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de
wrote:
Am 10.08.2013 16:54, schrieb Jiang BIAN:
About the inconsistency in the dump file, is there any bug entry created
for this? (I can create one, if anyone can point me the proper place to do that).
It's not a bug, and it can't really be fixed: the dumps contains the revisions as they are. The internal format changes over time. Pages that have been modified after the change will use the new version, older pages will use the old format. There's really not much we can do about it.
I do agree though that we should provide JSON dumps using the stable external format.
-- daniel