MediaWiki 1.13.0 released

[Roan Kattouw]

MediaWiki 1.13.0 is now available [1].

Selected changes to the API since 1.12.0:
* action=edit has been added. Note that $wgEnableWriteAPI = true; is required for this.
* list=allimages and prop=categoryinfo have been added.
* The blredirect, eiredirect and iuredirect (for list=backlinks, list=embeddedin and list=imageusage) have finally been implemented. Setting these parameters will list links through redirects as well.
* Paging (i.e. limit and continue parameters) have been added to prop=links, prop=templatelinks, prop=langlinks, prop=extlinks, prop=categories and prop=images. These modules no longer return all results by default, but only the first 10 (like list= modules do).
* Invalid titles no longer throw errors but are listed as invalid instead.
* Invalid values for multivalue parameters now throw warnings instead of errors

For a full list of changes to the API, see the section "API changes in 1.13" in the MediaWiki 1.13.0 release notes [2].

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-announce/2008-August/000076.html
[2] http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/tags/REL1_13_0/phase3/RELEASE-NOTES

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[Nicolas Vervelle-3]

Hi,

roan.kattouw@... a écrit :
> * action=edit has been added. Note that $wgEnableWriteAPI = true; is required for this.
Two questions about this :
- It doesn't seem to be activated on Wikipedia. Do you have an idea when
it will be available ?
- Is there a proper way to ask the API if action=edit is available (to
make code that can take advantage of it when available, but that use an
other way when not).

TIA,
Nico


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[Roan Kattouw]

Nicolas Vervelle schreef:

> Hi,
>
> roan.kattouw@... a écrit :
>  
>> * action=edit has been added. Note that $wgEnableWriteAPI = true; is required for this.
>>    
> Two questions about this :
> - It doesn't seem to be activated on Wikipedia. Do you have an idea when
> it will be available ?
>  

No.
> - Is there a proper way to ask the API if action=edit is available (to
> make code that can take advantage of it when available, but that use an
> other way when not).
>  
The best way would probably be to just go to api.php?action=edit , which
will either throw an error about a missing parameter (which means
action=edit is enabled) or an error saying 'edit' is an unknown value
for 'action' (in which case it's disabled).

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw@...> wrote:

> Nicolas Vervelle schreef:
>> Hi,
>>
>> roan.kattouw@... a écrit :
>>
>>> * action=edit has been added. Note that $wgEnableWriteAPI = true; is required for this.
>>>
>> Two questions about this :
>> - It doesn't seem to be activated on Wikipedia. Do you have an idea when
>> it will be available ?
>>
> No.
>> - Is there a proper way to ask the API if action=edit is available (to
>> make code that can take advantage of it when available, but that use an
>> other way when not).
>>
> The best way would probably be to just go to api.php?action=edit , which
> will either throw an error about a missing parameter (which means
> action=edit is enabled) or an error saying 'edit' is an unknown value
> for 'action' (in which case it's disabled).
>
> Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
>
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action=query&meta=siteinfo will show a writeapi attribute if the write
api is enabled.

Bryan

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