Before someone come with something like: if documentation is wrong, fix it

I don't know what the correct way is, because I am following the
documentation which is wrong, so until someone who knows how to do
this right fix it, I won't know that either.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am receiving lot of these warnings:
>
> WARNING: API query (revisions): The rvtoken parameter has been deprecated.
>
> According to current documentation for mediawiki at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Rollback which I follow, in order
> to get a rvtoken I should use this query:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvtoken=rollback&titles=Main%20Page&format=xml
>
> however that very query returns this warning. Is this a bug in
> documentation? Why do you first deprecate things and then, ages later,
> update the docs? Shouldn't it be the other way? Mediawiki has worst
> backward compatibility support I have ever seen and this is one of the
> reasons for it.
>
> Thanks

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