All this unnecessary changes is just making wikicoders live hard. *sigh*
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 08:17:41 +0200 > Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] API BREAKING CHANGE: Default continuation mode for > action=query will change at the end of this month > > > > > > Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:20:33 -0400 > > From: [email protected] > > > > On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 9:02 PM, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > Did the change go live? > > > > > > Yes! > > > > > > > Did the wikis fall over? > > > > > > > If they did, no one told me about it or complained about it in any of the > > places I looked. Not that I personally looked in extremely many places, but > > I'd have expected it to make it to this mailing list or Phabricator if > > something important broke. > > > > > You can't expect the average user to go to Phabricator or post on this > mailing list. If you are lucky, they complain on the respective talk pages > like [1] or some other place. > > I think, there is be quite a substantial amount of programs around which > still use the old interface and are broken now. Waiting for someone to notice > and fix... > > Marco > > [1] > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk%3AGadget-Cat-a-lot.js&type=revision&diff=165244124&oldid=165227754#Not_working_2 > > > > > > > > Is there any ongoing analysis of the number of user agents (bots / > > > gadgets / etc) still not specifying continue method? > > > > > > > The log warnings I used before the change were removed as part of the > > change, since it doesn't seem particularly interesting anymore: we can't > > tell server-side whether a client is actually broken or just isn't using > > continuation at all. > > > > I can tell you that the gzip-compressed api-feature-usage log files were > > around 2.5G on June 1 (just before the final communication push), 1.1G on > > July 1 (just before the change), and only 46M on July 4 (after the change > > with the logging for this removed). > > > > Is there a common approach for gadgets to identify themselves to the > > > API - e.g. setting a custom user-agent? > > > > > > > Clients that cannot set the User-Agent header (such as gadgets and other > > scripts running in a browser) may use the Api-User-Agent header instead. If > > present, this header is prepended to the standard User-Agent header for > > purposes such as the api-feature-usage log and Special:ApiFeatureUsage. > > > > > > -- > > Brad Jorsch (Anomie) > > Software Engineer > > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
