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- Oct 8 2021, 4:05 PM (252 w, 6 d)
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Wed, Aug 5
The only tools formerly listed on mw:Wikidata_Query_Service that are still active, and were not already listed at Wikidata:Tools were:
I made the following incremental updates:
- Updated https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20950365 to point to the more up-to-date user documentation in Wikidata instead of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Query_Service/User_Manual
- Wikidata Query Service on Wikitech - added clarification about audience and more prominent link to user docs.
- Wikidata Query Service on Mediawiki.org - updated infobox, added pointers to docs on other wikis, clarified that subpages are likely outdated and will be archived or migrated, and removed tool information (will integrate into Wikidata:Tools).
Tue, Aug 4
Remaining linter errors that I wasn't able to resolve before I had to move on to other work:
Per this wikitech-l thread, https://views.toolforge.org/tools/ is a UI based on the data in the Toolviews API.
I believe https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Developing_successful_tools and the larger set of documentation at https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge covers the contents of this task, so marking it as resolved.
Fri, Jul 24
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Extensions/Rest_Sandbox/Documentation_display is now ready for review by someone on the MWI team. There are several open TODOs that require a subject matter expert to complete, and I also need someone to verify the accuracy of everything I wrote :-). After that's done, we can do a tech writer final review for style and copyedits if necessary.
Revision to my original proposal: since Help:RestSandbox should primarily be docs for end users of the Sandbox, not API maintainers, we may need a different solution. If you decide you need a new page and not just that existing "OADs outside of MediaWiki" section, perhaps you should just create a new subpage of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/API_documentation. I don't think it's the ideal long-term location, but I'm not sure how best to proceed since the sandbox is currently part of Extension:WikimediaCustomizations. We can (at least for now) use https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:OpenAPI to be able to find/collocate the rapidly-increasing number of pages!
Replying to a question from @ArielGlenn about where this documentation content should live, I propose we add it to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:RestSandbox.
Thu, Jul 23
Wed, Jul 22
Just a passing note, the documentation that results from this task should be linked to from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Documentation/API_documentation#OADs_outside_of_MediaWiki
Mon, Jul 20
I did notice there's a link to a Telegram channel on the page, you could try posting a message there? https://t.me/+uYq8tNFQaWQyNjBk
Thu, Jul 16
Wed, Jul 15
Tue, Jul 14
Added a note about this to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Extensions/Modules#Testing_module_in_the_RestSandbox. I will also cover this and/or link to that section from https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Extensions/Rest_Sandbox/Documentation_display (but larger edits to that page are in progress, see T426851)
Jul 14 2026
Jul 9 2026
Other than @ mentioning Dogu like we have in this thread, posting on Talk:Adiutor is the other best way I know to communicate about this. If you post there, it gives other community members a chance to contribute in case Dogu (the original maintainer) can't. Since this tool is marked as "unmaintained", I'm not sure what level of technical review anyone may be able to provide, but posting publicly is the best way to alert others that their input would be helpful.
Jul 7 2026
Some initial documentation has been started at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:REST_API/Extensions/Rest_Sandbox/Documentation_display
I can work on updating and expanding this page, but I'm not connected with MWI's sprint cycle, so LMK if that's problematic at all...
Jul 6 2026
Thanks @Priyankar22 for working on this!
Jul 2 2026
Jun 30 2026
Picking up this task as part of Q1 work on Wikidata Platform documentation
Jun 23 2026
Jun 22 2026
None of the paths listed in the task description have linter errors for operation descriptions (wikimedia-operation-description)
nor for parameter descriptions (wikimedia-paths-parameter-description-customized), so I checked those boxes as done.
Jun 18 2026
As of now, the linter output for https://www.mediawiki.org/w/rest.php/specs/v0/module/- includes the following wikimedia-paths-GET-summary errors for the following routes:
- /math/v0/popup/html/{qid} ➤ get
- /oauth2/authorize ➤ get
- /oauth2/resource/{type} ➤ get
- /oauth2/client ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/event_registration/{id} ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/event_registration/{id}/participants/self ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/event_registration/{id}/organizers ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/event_registration/{id}/participants ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/organizer/{userid}/event_registrations ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/participant/{userid}/event_registrations ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/participant/self/events_for_edit ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/participant_questions ➤ get
- /campaignevents/v0/formatted_time/{languageCode}/{start}/{end} ➤ get
- /wikimediacampaignevents/v0/event_registration/{id}/grant_id ➤ get
Jun 17 2026
@Tejinderk.2004 - your user rights have been adjusted. Please log out of Wikitech and log back in, then attempt to make the edits you were making before. I hope you should be able to do so with no issues and without being blocked! However, if you encounter AbuseFilter issues again, please reopen T429511 and add a comment about what you are encountering. Thanks again!
Hi! Sorry to hear you're encountering that AbuseFilter issue. I filed T429511 to request that your user account be marked as 'confirmed user' so that hopefully you'll be able to edit without being blocked. Thanks for your patience and for your doc contributions!
Jun 10 2026
Jun 9 2026
What do you think about these summary changes?:
- /v1/search/page: change "Search pages" to "List pages by search query".
- /v1/search/title: change "Autocomplete page title" to "List pages by title query".
Jun 8 2026
Today I worked on updates for the core endpoints that had wikimedia-paths-GET-summary errors. For /v1/revision/{from}/compare/{to}, the Style Guide would have me change the summary from "Compare revisions" (source) to something like "Get revision comparison" or "Get comparison of revisions". However, I think those options are less clear and that "Compare revisions" is the simplest and shortest way to clearly describe what this GET operation does. I think the verb capturing the meaning of what the operation does is perhaps better than having consistent verbs for all GET operations. Perhaps we should discuss modifying or softening this Style Guide requirement?