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Pywikibot requires siteinfo prop extensions, which is 1.14+
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pywikibot requires siteinfo prop extensions in order to determine if AssertEdit is available (only used for write API calls) and to test if Disambiguation extension is available, which is used in core parts of Page (i.e. read support). See especially.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/168084/2/pywikibot/site.py,cm

Version: core-(2.0)
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 DeclinedNoneT74854 MW API version problems (tracking)
 DeclinedNoneT74871 Pywikibot requires siteinfo prop extensions, which is 1.14+

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:57 AM
• bzimport added a project: Pywikibot-General.
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jayvdb created this task.Nov 2 2014, 1:53 AM
Aklapper added a project: Pywikibot.Nov 27 2014, 4:10 PM
jayvdb added a project: Pywikibot-Interwiki-Map.Dec 4 2014, 9:17 AM
jayvdb moved this task from Backlog to MW Version pre-1.14 (unsupported) issues on the Pywikibot-Interwiki-Map board.
jayvdb moved this task from Backlog to Probably core only on the Pywikibot-General board.Dec 4 2014, 9:29 AM
jayvdb renamed this task from Pywikibot requires siteinfo extensions, which is 1.14+ to Pywikibot requires siteinfo prop extensions, which is 1.14+.Sep 3 2015, 12:50 AM
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jayvdb triaged this task as Lowest priority.Sep 3 2015, 12:54 AM
Dvorapa moved this task from Probably core only to Backlog on the Pywikibot-General board.Jul 10 2017, 1:51 PM
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The minimum version of supported mw release is 1.14. So let pwb fail ugly in older cases instead of invest time consuming coding for that approach.

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