I've already announced this change on http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:Bots#Upcoming_changes_to_wbeditentity
No comments so far. cheers, tobi On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected] > wrote: > A quick heads up: > > We have a breaking change for the API in the pipeline: > <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/68406/12>. This has not been merged > yet, but > I expect this to go into the next branch (to be deployed on June 24, if > I'm not > mistaking). > > It's really a fix for previously underspecified and dangerous behavior: > the editentity module would automatically create a new item when called > without > giving an ID of the entity to modify. > > With the patch, editentity now requires that either the 'id' parameter or > the > 'new' parameter be set, explicitly stating which entity to modify resp. > what > kind of entity to create. > > That is, bots that wish to create an item now need to provide the new=item > parameter, instead of just not supplying an id parameter. This affects all > bots > that create items. > > We could keep the old behavior as a B/C mode, but it's dangerous and ill > defined; I think it's better to break some bots now, it's easy to fix > anyway. > But it should of course be announced in due time. > > -- daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech > -- Tobi Gritschacher Software Developer - Wikidata - http://www.wikidata.org Imagine a world, in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. That‘s our commitment. Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Obentrautstraße 72 | 10963 Berlin Phone +49 (0)30 219 158 260 http://wikimedia.de <http://www.wikimedia.de/> Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.
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