To make the API somewhat simpler, and possibly easier to maintain, the itemtoken should be removed in favor of the edittoken. The only real problem is that we can't change it to enforce serialization of some of the requests, but those calls could be handled separately.
Use of "gettoken" will be removed from wbgetitems and wbset*. All modules that use "token" will then supply edittoken and not itemtoken. The user interface is currently using edittoken and can continue to use that one. For API calls the edittoken is already available through action=tokens, and no changes are necessary there.
See also https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35993
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