wm-bot should not use WDDX MediaWiki API format (format going away May 2015)
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	MaxSem
	Oct 2 2014, 12:50 AM

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wm-bot uses WDDX for API requests to wikitech, source: https://github.com/benapetr/wikimedia-bot/blob/master/src/WMBot.WMFPlugins/Requests/Request.cs - please switch it to a non-deprecated format, preferably JSON.

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:55 AM

• bzimport added a project: WM-Bot.

• bzimport set Reference to bz71543.

Now that WDDX is set to die in May, priority can't be lowest;)

While auto-assigning in Bugzilla is convenient, I do wonder if it leads to cookie-licking.

I think that this requests module is either going to die before May or it needs complete rewrite. I don't even think anyone still uses it?

Ricordisamoa set Security to None.

In T73543#1020529, @Petrb wrote:

I don't even think anyone still uses it?

That does not seem to have been true in February. But logs of wm-bot hitting format=wddx suddenly stopped on April 8, so maybe it's fixed now.

Petrb closed this task as Resolved.May 28 2015, 7:20 AM