There are some (maybe many) special pages that can't returm raw information
(compare Special:Randompage with Special:RandomInCategory for example).
Maybe it's better to think how to make all them same, in place of creation
a raw version one by one.
Igal


2017-09-15 18:51 GMT+03:00 [[kgh]] <[email protected]>:

> I see the usecase and I thing issue and bug reports could very much
> benefit from that. Wouldn't this be something for MediaWiki core to
> provide via a special page or some action raw to special Version that
> just emits the raw data in a copy paste way except for the descriptions?
>
> Cheers Karsten
>
> Am 15.09.2017 um 17:44 schrieb Bartosz Dziewoński:
> > On 2017-09-15 17:11, Evans, Richard K. (GRC-H000) wrote:
> >> Ok.. forgive me for being slow in understanding this. This API
> >> interface is new to me.
> >> Are you saying I can't get*just*  a list of extension names and
> >> corresponding versions from the API?
> >> If so, is it easy to show me how? (sorry to have to ask)
> >
> > No, you can only get the entire JSON structure.
> >
> > If the goal is to "to have a nice simple way to attach that info to a
> > support thread", then you can probably just copypaste the entire thing?
> > Otherwise, you'll have to extract extensions' names from it.
> >
>
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