https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33461

--- Comment #23 from Niklas Laxström <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > Most extensions do not use the api to do edits on the php side (they do use
> > it if the edit is coming from js side). Calling the api internally from the 
> > php
> > side is rather hacky curently (unless things have changed).
> 
> The MediaWiki API has sanity checks for user permissions, bot flags, blocks,
> etc. Duplicating this logic internally is senseless.

Like said, calling the WebAPI internally is pita and hence nobody does it.
There is even a bug open demanding that nobody does that in a certain way
because it messes up things.

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