Last modified: 2009-12-30 05:20:10 UTC
Up to few days ago, it was possible to retrive the watchlist via the action=query and list=watchlist parameters of api.php. This no longer works, and this feature is not even mentioned in the help screen. I checked the API code on svn, but it seems to me that no significant change has been done recently.
action=feedwatchlist appears to no longer work or appear on the help screen either.
Appears to work fine in trunk as of r21103...
Here is an answer I got from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:API a couple of days ago: "Domas removed it because it "failed to conform to db standards" and advised developers to "just use Special:Watchlist", which sucks, but sobeit. Unless it is completely rewritten to conform to db standards (not use the master db, but instead use that dedicated to watchlists, etc.), it will be gone."
I have committed the change to select 'watchlist' database pool for all watchlist queries. A root needs to validate and change the server settings.
Reenabled.
