Status of the Wikidot API?

Status of the Wikidot API?

Aelanna 02 May 2012 05:50

Hi, I'm curious as to whether anything is planned or being worked on for the Wikidot API. It feels like there's still several nagging bugs and lots of unimplemented features, and looking around the Developer site it seems as if nothing has really changed for almost a year now. Can we expect any new additions to the API any time soon, or is this a dead project now?

Re: Status of the Wikidot API?

leiger 07 May 2012 07:23

The main developer that was working on the Wikidot API (Piotr/Gabrys) left the company a while ago, and since then work on the API seems to have stalled. I'd really like to see improvements and changes in this area as well.

Most likely the best place to push for a specific improvement, if you have one, is on the feedback.wikidot.com website.

Is there anything in particular that you are hoping to see implemented soon?

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Shane Smith
Web Developer and Wikidot Community Administrator
Links: Blog, Wikimated, Editor (STE), Documentation

Re: Status of the Wikidot API?

Aelanna 08 May 2012 15:44

The three features/fixes I'd like to see most are:

1. Querying for older revisions on pages. There is no way to do this right now.

2. Being able to pull individual rating votes off pages. It would be nice if you could get just upvotes vs. downvotes, though it would be even nicer to see who voted on what pages.

3. Better getPosts functionality. Right now, there is no way to pull threads out of a site forum without querying for all posts on a site. On many sites this isn't an issue, but for one the size of the SCP Foundation wiki, this crashes as there are way too many thread IDs. Some way of either paginating results across multiple requests or focusing threads by forum category is sorely needed.

I will take a look at the feedback site as well, and thanks for your reply. :)

Re: Status of the Wikidot API?

leiger 09 May 2012 05:18

All of those would be great. Particularly the first one, which I've wanted for a while.

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Shane Smith
Web Developer and Wikidot Community Administrator
Links: Blog, Wikimated, Editor (STE), Documentation

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Re: Status of the Wikidot API?

Aelanna 10 May 2012 15:11

I posted three requests in the feedback site:

http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:789
http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:790
http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:791

Please support if you'd like to see these implemented. ^_^