Re: [Mediawiki-api] API search issue

2019-12-30 Thread Robert Chin
I think you need to either comment in the issue I created in https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241437 Or write your own bug in phabricator. I’m don’t know if there’s another bug tracker to report in via Wikipedia instead of wikimedia. Robert On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 2:56 AM Alessandro Vallin < a

Re: [Mediawiki-api] API search issue

2019-12-29 Thread Robert Chin
I saw this happening too and complained, but it seems they don’t want to fix the issue. They suggested I switch APIs but this leaves all of my existing clients running older releases out in the dark. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241437 Would suggest you complain there. Robert On Sun, Dec

[Mediawiki-api] Opensearch description field missing in recent update

2014-12-11 Thread Robert Chin
Hi, The Description field seems to have gone missing very recently (in the past day or days) from the api.php Opensearch results. Is this expected? Thanks, Robert ___ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Querying categories at the bottom of wiki pages

2013-09-27 Thread Robert Chin
On Wednesday, July 3, 2013, Ran Ari-Gur wrote: > You can specify clshow=!hidden to omit the "hidden" categories that, by > default, are not shown at the bottom of a page: > Is there a way to do this for action=parse so that only a single query needs to be made? I noticed that asking action=parse

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Potential API rewrite

2012-11-10 Thread Robert Chin
Will there be any effort made to improve the situation with wiki text and formatting? The biggest problem I have isn't the API specifically (which works fine for my needs), but the fact that it is near impossible to implement WYSIWYG editing of wiki text. Also the lack of consistency between displa

[Mediawiki-api] Request for pages that don't exist no longer return an error code in xml

2012-10-17 Thread Robert Chin
Is it intentional that pages that don't exist no longer return an error message? Previously a request for something like: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=testest&format=xml&redirects Would return some friendly xml error that I could parse: Now it just returns an empty pa

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-28 Thread Robert Chin
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:58 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > Because of the cache splitting involved, this is causing a load > increase on our API cluster. So please let me know when the iOS > clients are fixed and I can turn this hack back off. I

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Chin
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 1:36 AM, Robert Chin wrote: >> It would be really great if you >> could allow us some flexibility in this area though -- could you maybe >> put in a temporary workaround in action=parse to

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Chin
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Robert Chin wrote: >> Is it possible to roll back this change for the main servers for about >> two weeks? > I'd really rather not. The change is necessary to make the impendin

Re: [Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Chin
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Roan Kattouw wrote: > These URLs are not invalid, they're protocol-relative. They should > work in every browser. They're officially called 'network-path > references' and specified in  RFC 3986 section 4.2 [1]. If your client > can't deal with these URLs, that's

[Mediawiki-api] Mediawiki Wikipedia API bug

2011-09-27 Thread Robert Chin
There appears to be some sort of bug affecting a subset of pages that started happening yesterday night. Certain tags on Wikipedia's API are being served with an invalid URL, missing the scheme in front: This is seen on http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=Cereal However certain