Thread:Talk:Requests for comment/API Future/Clean up formats/reply (3)

While the numbers are interesting, they may not tell the complete tale. The xml is a good example: there are three very sharp downward steps, suggesting three very high volume but specific tools have stopped using that format. Contrariwise, there's an informal but general increasing trend in PHP, suggesting a diversity of tools are using that format. Translated, this suggest a wider range of projects might be broken by removal of php as a format, while a smaller number of projects might be broken by removal of json as a format.

Yes, I know you're not suggesting eliminating php as a format.

But you are suggesting the content API should shut out the more diverse community of projects which are already using the API.