Congrats to Jon and everyone who made this happen!
> On Jun 3, 2022, at 10:36 AM, Jon Robson <jrob...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > Yesterday, the MobileView Action API was removed from all Wikimedia > production servers [1]. > > The API was originally built to service our apps but over time that has been > replaced with the Page Content Service [2]. The original service was not > being maintained, and usage was very low. If you were using the MobileView > API we urge you to check this API out as it is a more powerful, better cached > alternative. > > We marked the API as hard deprecated in December 2019 [3], after which it was > marked in ApiSandbox and in the response as deprecated, and support has been > dwindling since then, for example, the noimages parameter was dropped in > September 2020 [4]. > > In March 2022 we removed the remaining production blocker for removing the > code: language variant support [5]. The Page content service was prreviously > using the mobile view API for language variant views but has now been rewired > to use the better supported core action=parse API. If you need to support > language variant views and previously couldn't because of the lack of support > in the page content service this should no longer be an obstacle.. > > Since April 2022 users of the API would have been seeing an inline banning > warning them of the upcoming breakage [6]. We got no feedback from these > banners so were comfortable with pushing forward. > > Impact on user scripts was judged as low [7] with only 14 scripts impacted so > this has not been announced on tech news. > > If you are impacted by this change, I apologise that previous communications > have failed you and I'd love to hear from you about how we could have done > this deprecation better. If I can support you in any way in making sure your > apps/gadgets/scripts are working again please feel free to reply to this > email either privately or publicly or to raise a topic on the MobileFrontend > talk page [8]. > > Finally, thanks to the engineers who helped make this deprecation possible. > Jon > > [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T186627 > [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Page_Content_Service > [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T210808 > [4] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T262580, > [5] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236733 > [6] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T286836 > [7]https://global-search.toolforge.org/?q=%5B%27%22%5C%3D%5Dmobileview®ex=1&namespaces=2%2C8&title=.*%5C.js > [8] > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:MobileFrontend?tableofcontents=0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api-announce mailing list -- > mediawiki-api-annou...@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to > mediawiki-api-announce-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list -- mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mediawiki-api-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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