https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33260

Krinkle <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2011-12-19 22:20:55 UTC ---
Hm.. it would be an API bug if it the canonical goal behind appending text to a
page is to create a new thread, or even to participate in discussion at all.

However, for one, the header of an LQT-enabled page should be editable as well.
And secondly, how can we distinguish from appending something to the last
section and appending a new section ?

Instead of appendtext, it should probably use text=...&section=new, like the
front-end. That would be closer to something that canonically means wanting to
open a new discussion when used on a talk page.

Theoratically a bot could be using text=..&section=new to create a new section
in the header of an LQT-enabled page, so we'd have to find a way to do that
still.

Perhaps MediaWiki should get an additional parameter (or different
action/module alltogether) for participating in discussions and letting
extensions override this ? By default it would implement a 'raw wikitext'
discussion thread, which is just sections on a talk page.

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