On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Yuri Astrakhan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On the other hand, the proposed benefit is huge for the vast majority of the > API users.
The vast majority of API users use a framework like pywikipedia that has already solved the continuation problem. > your example - run allpages generator with the gaplimit=1 Yes, that was a contrived example to show that someone might not want to be forced into following the prop continues to the end.. > Besides, if we introduce versions (which we definetly should, as it gives us > a way to move forward, optimize and rework the api structure), we can always > keep the old way for the compatibility sake. I think versions is a better > overall way to move forward and to give warnings about incompatible changes > than adding extra URL parameters. The problem with versions is this: what if someone wants "version 1" of query-continue (because "version 2" removed all features), but the latest version of the rest of the API? _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
