On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Robert Ullmann <
rlullmann@...> wrote:
> Like this:
>
>
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Special:AllPages/Hill>
> used to display 480 titles starting at "Hill". Now it does what PrefixIndex
> does. If I wanted that, I'd use Prefixindex. How do we get access to the
> original function? (And I don't understand the bit about "excessively long
> output" at all, it always displayed 480 titles (except at the end of the
> wiki).
As far as I can tell, formerly the URL you gave did nothing at all.
r39427 <
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki?view=rev&revision=39427>
appears to have allowed subpage syntax to be used for AllPages; if I
undo that commit then AllPages/Foo returns the same page as plain old
AllPages. Your suggested behavior appears more sensible in any event,
though.
I'm not really sympathetic to bot authors who screen-scrape special
pages instead of using the API, though.
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