User talk:RobinHood70

the edit to the page with the tables
Sorry, I should have probably left a note after reverting. I agree that having empty (but existent cells) is better than having non-existent cells. I only reverted your edit because it caused some of the text that was supposed to in the first column to appear in the second column. As an example, the text  This action is disabled by default in  moved from the function column to the example column (and it belongs on the function column). Cheers. Bawolff 22:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm sorry...I never even noticed! I'll have another look at it and try again. My bad! RobinHood70 23:12, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Adding img_id and oi_img_id
You may be interested in, which would add img_id and oi_img_id. That way, you could do a prop=imageinfo query that would grab the image info for, say, 500 or 5,000 images, which you would specify using an imgid parameter. Later, of course, it will be a prop=fileinfo query. Leucosticte (talk) 19:43, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! – RobinHood70 talk 19:52, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

Fixed at Template:API-head
Re API:Allredirects, we were fixing it over at Template:API-head. Cheers, John Vandenberg (talk) 02:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * I was just about to look at that. You got there before I did and confused my royally by fixing it! :P Thanks! – Robin Hood  (talk)  02:01, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * No worries. If you are bored, you could help me roll out Template:API-head onto the API pages. I am going to be doing API:Lists first.  I am standardising them before setting up a bot to build these pages from the API paraminfo.  See Thread:Project:Current issues/Api documentation bot. John Vandenberg (talk) 02:09, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * While I haven't been adding API-head to the pages, I've actually been updating each page as I create my bot-framework version of it. A bot is probably a good idea in the long run, though, since we can more easily add info as each version is released. For bot creators, it would be ideal if historical info was kept for a reasonable amount of time. I still come across wikis running on versions below 1.20...I found one on 1.15 a while ago, though I don't remember where off-hand. That's good info to know when programming. Anyway, I digress. I'll go have a look at the Props page and see what I can do there. – Robin Hood  (talk)  02:33, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * Yea, the pywikibot team is now doing the same thing. We add a decorator on our API methods, and require new contributions determine this info.  We're nearly supporting v1.14 without any loss of functionality (except features which dont exist) and I've got most tests passing with v1.11, but there is some serious opposition to the concept of supporting v.11. hehe. Which bot framework are you developing? John Vandenberg (talk) 02:46, 22 February 2015 (UTC)


 * The properties page is done now. Unfortunately, that's about all I'm up to tonight. Let me know if you need any more help on anything. I have historical copies of the MediaWiki code almost back to the beginning if there's any research needed of that nature. If nothing else, helping out here keeps me away from the content dispute I'm on on WP. This is why I like editing here, we don't really tend to get much of that. :) – Robin Hood  (talk)  03:03, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

UESP off-topic
I gained most of my knowledge on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages.

Ahha-ha, as a trailing-edge gamer I'm spending too much time on http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Useful_Potions trying to figure out what to make when I return from a quest. So much homework!! :) -- SPage (WMF) (talk) 07:22, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Api properties split
Hi, thanks for working on API pages. I'm trying to write some articles for "dev.wikimedia.org" but they refer to the API pages so I'm looking at them too.

Who else works on these pages? Is there a mw:Project:Documentation for us? I see User:Shirayuki localizing them and a bunch of people improving them.

You recently split Api:Properties, I'm curious why?

A few things I noticed looking at Api:Categories
 * the API-head doesn't identify this as a submodule of
 * maybe the individual pages should be subpages of API:Properties or Api:Query, that way they have crumbtrail back to their parent.
 * the introductory text "Gets a list of all categories used on the provided pages." and the API-head text "List all categories the page(s) belong to." are redundant.
 * Api:Categories might be able to be just, but some of the other query submodules have information about versions as you pointed out.
 * the link in the generated help returned by  is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#categories_.2F_cl, they'll need to be updated

Thanks. -- SPage (WMF) (talk) 08:14, 24 February 2015 (UTC)