I can confirn that the interwiki script in compat is better than the core version. :(
On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 12:53 Bináris, <wikipo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-09-06 6:57 GMT+02:00 MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com>: > > > > > > > I don't know enough about your requirements to say for sure, but in my > > uninformed opinion, the best thing would be to switch from Pywikibot > > Compat to Pywikibot core. :-) > > This is a long story, and the talk has its own place. I do have the reason > to use compat, and there are many users in the solar system. > > > > Looking at pages such as > > <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/deprecation>, it > > seems the Compat version of Pywikibot is completely dead and no longer > > supported. Retrofitting Compat to support current login code doesn't > > sound like fun to me. > > > No, it is not dead, but there are people who like to state that. It has > plenty of users. You might say, those instances run on older MW installs > where the login is fine. But there are still Wikimedia projects with > interwikis (not switched to Wikidata yet), and interwiki bot owners like > compat for some reason. Catch 22. > What I try to do at the moment, is just the support, so "no longer > supported" is not the case. (Yeah, I do it for myself, but if I succeed, > the result will be published.) > > > > > > I think the API documentation should probably be made a bit clearer as I > > think there are now two deprecated ways of logging in. We should likely > > make it more explicit which way applies to which versions of MediaWiki. > > This allows developers to have a quicker and easier understanding when > > determining how much compatibility code is needed in a specific > > tool/script/application. > > > Yes, I appreciate. > _______________________________________________ > 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
