It may be terrible in a lot of other ways, but the mediawiki API does chaining of one api function into another. It's one of the features that I noticed that re

It may be terrible in a lot of other ways, but the mediawiki API does chaining of one api function into another. It's one of the features that I noticed that really should be more prevalent in other API's. An API call should be kind of like a mini-job submitted to the server that does some work and gets back some results.