https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41837
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Bug #: 41837
Summary: Make MediaWiki more RESTful
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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I just started thinking about this when I saw bug #41836 breeze by on IRC, but
we *really* don't have *any* RESTful interfaces available. We should consider
changing that.
Things that should get better, off the top of my head:
* Pages/articles should be GET'd, like they are now. ?action=* should probably
be replaced by root-level directories like /pageinfo/* and /parse/*, also as
GET queries.
* Edits should be done via POST, but they should be done *at the same URI* as
the page you're editing. So "GET /wiki/Barack_Obama" and "POST
/wiki/Barack_Obama" mean exactly what you'd expect.
* The API probably needs a lot of changing, but I'm not sure where to start.
These issues could probably all be separate bugs, with this as the tracker.
This is decidedly a wishlist item, too, so I'll mark the priority as low and
make sure it's an enhancement.
Also, this will change a lot of how the community interacts with MediaWiki, so
it may need to be an extension, or at least configurable, at first. We'll
absolutely need community consensus to enable this on wikipedias, and that will
almost certainly take a long time. Maybe this is a project we could do
incrementally.
Any thoughts welcome!
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