[Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/ Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service API will be disabled for 24 hours beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18, as part of the anti-SOPA/PIPA blackout. Please forward and

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Maarten Dammers
HI Sumana , Op 17-1-2012 18:11, Sumana Harihareswara schreef: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/ Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service API will be disabled for 24 hours beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday,

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread OQ
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: HI Sumana , Op 17-1-2012 18:11, Sumana Harihareswara schreef: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/ Editing pages on English Wikipedia via the web service

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Jeff Ferland
Are we turning off all edits? Last I understood from Ryan Kaldari on Wikitech-L there would be a site notice that covered everything up, but the enterprising among us could hide the layer / block the js. On Jan 17, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread OQ
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Jeff Ferland j...@storyinmemo.com wrote: Are we turning off all edits? Last I understood from Ryan Kaldari on Wikitech-L there would be a site notice that covered everything up, but the enterprising among us could hide the layer / block the js. From what I

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Ferland j...@storyinmemo.com wrote: Are we turning off all edits? Last I understood from Ryan Kaldari on Wikitech-L there would be a site notice that covered everything up, but the enterprising among us could hide the layer / block the js. Edits will be

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Maarten Dammers
Op 17-1-2012 21:42, Erik Moeller schreef: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Jeff Ferlandj...@storyinmemo.com wrote: Are we turning off all edits? Last I understood from Ryan Kaldari on Wikitech-L there would be a site notice that covered everything up, but the enterprising among us could

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Erik Moeller
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: But how Erik? What message will the api throw when bots tries to read or to edit? Via $wgGroupPermissions -- so I guess it'll throw a general permission error identical to what you'd get if you'd try to edit a page you

Re: [Toolserver-l] Editing en.wp via API to be disabled on 18 January

2012-01-17 Thread Sumana Harihareswara
On 01/17/2012 01:01 PM, Erik Moeller wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Maarten Dammers maar...@mdammers.nl wrote: But how Erik? What message will the api throw when bots tries to read or to edit? Via $wgGroupPermissions -- so I guess it'll throw a general permission error identical