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-For a [[Dedicated Wikipedia editor|client-side reader/editor]] and [[w:Wikipedia:Bots|legitimate bots]], it would be useful to be able to bypass some of the variableness of the for-humans web interface.
+revisions exported. &mdash;<strong>[[User:Anonymous Dissident|<span style="font-family:Script MT Bold;color:DarkSlateGray">Anonymous Dissident</span>]]</strong>[[User_talk:Anonymous Dissident|<sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;color:Gray">Talk</span></sup>]] 23:42, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
-* Retrieve raw wikicode source of a page without parsing the edit page
-**ex http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?action=raw
-**Should we be able to get some meta-data along with that -- revision date, name, etc? Or all separate...
-**How best to deal with old revisions? The 'oldid' as at present, or something potentially more robust; revision timestamp ''should'' be unique, but may not always be (only second resolution; some old timestamps wiped out by a bug in February '02 leaving multiple revisions at the same time)
-**At some future point, preferred URLs may change and UTF-8 may be used more widely; a client should be able to handle 301 & 302 redirects, and the charset specified in the Content-type header. If your bot won't handle UTF-8, it should explicitly say so in an Accept-charset header so the server can treat you like a broken web browser and work around it.
-* Fuller [[RDF spool|RDF-based Recentchanges]]
-** Also page history and incoming/outgoing links lists? Watchlist?
-* A cleaner save interface and login?
-Comments, suggestions?