Translations:Manual:Pywikibot/Compat/deprecation/3/en

Pywikibot (then "Pywikipediabot") was started back in 2002. In 2002 MediaWiki didn't have an api so pywikibot used screen scraping to interact with MediaWiki. In 2007 a new branch (rewrite, now core) was started from scratch using the (then new) MediaWiki api. Over the years core got more mature and most scripts were migrated. In 2013 core surpassed compat in number of changes. In 2015 the developers of Pywikibot decided to deprecate the compat version of Pywikibot and discontinue support for compat (see phab:T101214). Not long after this decision, the MediaWiki api developers announce a breaking change that will break compat on Wikimedia sites (see phab:T101524).