On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:52 PM, Brianna Laugher<brianna.laug...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you make something orders of magnitude easier, it is like a "new" thing.
I think you're overstating how much easier the write API is to use. Screen-scraping is not hard. We've always had plenty of screen-scraping bots, and we still do. I'd like to think that there's no proliferation of web-based third-party editing interfaces because you have to request users' passwords to get them to work, and that's an obviously stupid idea. Plus because existing non-web-based editing interfaces are good enough. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
