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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. |
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35 revisions exported. —<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) |
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* Retrieve raw wikicode source of a page without parsing the edit page |
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**ex http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?action=raw |
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**Should we be able to get some meta-data along with that -- revision date, name, etc? Or all separate... |
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**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) |
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**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. |
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* Fuller [[RDF spool|RDF-based Recentchanges]] |
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** Also page history and incoming/outgoing links lists? Watchlist? |
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* A cleaner save interface and login? |
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* Look into [http://wasabii.org/root/ wasabii] (<i><b>w</b>eb <b>a</b>pplication <b>s</b>tandard <b>A</b>PI [for] <b>b</b>i-directional <b>i</b>nformation <b>i</b>nterchange</i>). It's meant as a general API for CMSes, weblogs, etc. The spec may be rich enough for it to work with Wikipedia. The plus side of supporting <i>wasabii</i> is that any wasabii-compliant end-user application should be able to interface with Wikipedia. |
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**In the blog world, at least, <i>wasabii</i> seems to be positioning itself as the next generation standard API (replacing bloggerAPI as the popular interface), which means lots of end-user applications will be created. All we'd have to do is support <i>wasabii</i> at some URL and we'd automatically inherit crap loads of functionality. |
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Comments, suggestions? |
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35 revisions exported. —Anonymous DissidentTalk 23:42, 2 December 2009 (UTC)