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Anyone know how this redesign impacts clients that reference Wikipedia? A lot of times I access it via the Dictionary app on MacOS. I currently see the old desi
by ProfessorLayton 4y ago
Anyone know how this redesign impacts clients that reference Wikipedia? A lot of times I access it via the Dictionary app on MacOS. I currently see the old design, but can't tell if they're still rolling out the new design slowly.
- csande17 4y agoAFAIK the redesign only affected the page chrome, navigation, etc. It didn't affect the HTML content of the actual articles because that's controlled by the Wikipedia editor community, not the Wikimedia Foundation (who maintains the MediaWiki software and was responsible for the redesign). So clients like the Dictionary app that only pull the article content are unaffected. For now...
- trynewideas 4y agoClients that use the API won't see a difference. They get raw content output and don't rely on skin features at all. You can simulate that kind of response with the render query parameter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?action=render https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Academy_Awards?action=ren... but clients probably use more specific API endpoints, like fetching the HTML: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&titles=59th_Academy_Awards https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&... or plain text: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&prop=extracts&explaintext=1&titles=59th_Academy_Awards https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=json&action=query&...