On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 03:56:48PM -0400, Russell Blau wrote: > "Roan Kattouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > That's the database's fault, not the API's. If this causes trouble, > > someone should write a maintenance script to delete these ghost pages. > > Well, I'm the one who posted about this on enwiki, and was told in no > uncertain terms by Tim Starling that it's the API's fault, not the > database's.
The existence of the invalid titles is the database's fault. However, I seem to recall from past experience that the general philosophy is for Mediawiki to handle them gracefully. That's the light in which I read Tim's comments. > 2) change the API so that, if there is a bad title in the titles= > parameter, it still returns the query result for all the valid titles. There is an open bug report about that: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13390 - Carl _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
