It means all compat bots will break and since pywikibot team won't support compat and won't change the code to support the new API, We are planning to deprecate it [1]
So please compat bot operators, do update your codes to core, read [2] [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T99365 [2]: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Compat_deprecation Best On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 1:13 AM Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <bjor...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > As has been announced several times (most recently at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2015-April/081559.html), > the default continuation mode for action=query requests to api.php will be > changing to be easier for new coders to use correctly. > > *The date is now set:* we intend to merge the change to ride the deployment > train at the end of June. That should be 1.26wmf12, to be deployed to test > wikis on June 30, non-Wikipedias on July 1, and Wikipedias on July 2. > > If your bot or script is receiving the warning about this upcoming change > (as seen here > <https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages>, for > example), it's time to fix your code! > > - The simple solution is to simply include the "rawcontinue" parameter > with your request to continue receiving the raw continuation data ( > example > < > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&rawcontinue=1 > >). > No other code changes should be necessary. > - Or you could update your code to use the simplified continuation > documented at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Continuing_queries > (example > < > https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allpages&continue= > >), > which is much easier for clients to implement correctly. > > Either of the above solutions may be tested immediately, you'll know it > works because you stop seeing the warning. > > I've compiled a list of bots that have hit the deprecation warning more > than 10000 times over the course of the week May 23-29. If you are > responsible for any of these bots, please fix them. If you know who is, > please make sure they've seen this notification. Thanks. > > AAlertBot > AboHeidiBot > AbshirBot > Acebot > Ameenbot > ArnauBot > Beau.bot > Begemot-Bot > BeneBot* > BeriBot > BOT-Superzerocool > CalakBot > CamelBot > CandalBot > CategorizationBot > CatWatchBot > ClueBot_III > ClueBot_NG > CobainBot > CorenSearchBot > Cyberbot_I > Cyberbot_II > DanmicholoBot > DeltaQuadBot > Dexbot > Dibot > EdinBot > ElphiBot > ErfgoedBot > Faebot > Fatemibot > FawikiPatroller > HAL > HasteurBot > HerculeBot > Hexabot > HRoestBot > IluvatarBot > Invadibot > Irclogbot > Irfan-bot > Jimmy-abot > JYBot > Krdbot > Legobot > Lowercase_sigmabot_III > MahdiBot > MalarzBOT > MastiBot > Merge_bot > NaggoBot > NasirkhanBot > NirvanaBot > Obaid-bot > PatruBOT > PBot > Phe-bot > Rezabot > RMCD_bot > Shuaib-bot > SineBot > SteinsplitterBot > SvickBOT > TaxonBot > Theo's_Little_Bot > W2Bot > WLE-SpainBot > Xqbot > YaCBot > ZedlikBot > ZkBot > > > -- > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > Software Engineer > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
