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Id: 27588
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Requestors: buzz [...] exotica.org.uk
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  Thu Jun 14 18:40:50 2007 buzz [...] exotica.org.uk - Ticket created
Subject: Use Mediawiki api for some functions for faster interfacing
I recently came across http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php Seems to be a read only interface at present, but its also official and I would guess that it would be more efficient to use this than screen scraping for some functions.
  Thu Jun 14 18:42:05 2007 buzz [...] exotica.org.uk - Correspondence added
From: buzz [...] exotica.org.uk
On Thu Jun 14 18:40:50 2007, exobuzz wrote: I also note that this is infact the query interface which the module can use. However the documentation for query.php does state: Note: Query API is being migrated into the new API interface. Please use the new API, which is now a part of the standard MediaWiki engine. so we should move to the new api