https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46558
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Bug ID: 46558
Summary: Allow action=raw for content model `wikibase-item`
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: WikidataRepo
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Classification: Unclassified
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I know that I "should" use the API to get the content of a page, but sometimes
you don't care about other meta data, and action=raw is a much simpler
interface to get the content of a page, so I think it should work on Wikidata,
too. Currently a "415 Unsupported Media Type" is thrown.
In bug 40032 comment #1 Daniel Kinzler wrote:
> I removed support for action=raw for non-text content as a response to an
> explicit request from the core team - I think it was Tim Starling. The reason
> is that the current expectation is that this will return wikitext, and
> returning JSON or XML or whatever would break that expectation. Also, while
> we
> can communicate the serialization format using the ContentType header, there
> is
> no way to tell the client which content *model* is used, which makes it
> impossible to interpret the returned data.
I suggest to allow action=raw if an acceptable parameter ctype is set, i.e.
something like action=raw&ctype=application/json or
action=raw&ctype=application/x-wikibase-item should work. With such a parameter
the client shows that he (1) doesn't expect wikitext, and (2) knows about the
content model, which should answer the above concerns.
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