Last modified: 2012-12-13 11:17:35 UTC
The API's edit section allows editing of page content, using the serialized form for non-text content models(*). This should not be permitted for Wikidata entities, where specialized modules must be used. It may be the case that we have to modify a few bits in the core API to make this work nicely. (*) ApiEditPage is not yet aware of ContentHandlers, but this will be implemented in the next few days.
Perhaps this could be implemented by each content handler having a function like isHumanEditable() which would say whether this is possible, whether there should be edit button etc.
Being human-editable and allowing direct modification of the serialized form are two different things - one might want to allow direct modification even of non-human-readable content, for example SVG. But yes, I think the ContentHandler should have functions to check for this.
Editing via API is blocked for this extension, should perhaps have a more generic solution. https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/13191/
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