More ranting:

proper deprecated-message should look like this:

"foo is deprecated. Please use bar instead (see
http://awesomedocs.net/how-to-use-bar.htm)"

It would be cool if mw devs who keep deprecating things would consider this.

Thanks

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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