new #m3api release! (m3api is a JavaScript library to use the MediaWiki action API :3)
just two changes:
• a minor change to the handling of responses with Retry-After headers which should hopefully be useful especially when targeting Wikimedia wikis
• a new declaration that changing the supported Node.js versions is not considered a breaking change (and what to do if you need support for a specific Node.js version)
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api/-/releases/v1.0.4
unfinished thought: it would be quite good to have something like the Toolforge Abandoned Tool policy (https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/Abandoned_tool_policy) for non-tool Wikimedia code, such as libraries (e.g. #m3api) or applications (e.g. Pattypan?)
this could be a step towards “Off-the-shelf governance models for small FOSS projects” (@pintoch, https://antonin.delpeuch.eu/posts/off-the-shelf-governance-models-for-small-foss-projects/) – if a codebase opts into it (README.md?), there would be an established process for adopting it if the maintainer goes inactive
and, after some CI troubles (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T414864), m3api-oauth2 v1.0.3 is out, now using the new m3api-rest package (see above) internally! \o/
https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api-oauth2/-/releases/v1.0.3
to kick off the new year, here’s a new m3api extension package! m3api-rest lets you make some requests to the MediaWiki REST API :)
it’s only v0.1.0 and it’s quite limited, so probably you shouldn’t look at it too closely yet ;) more powerful versions should come soonish and then it’ll be more useful, with support for more request methods and request+response content types ^^
https://www.npmjs.com/package/m3api-rest
https://doc.wikimedia.org/m3api/m3api-rest/v0.1.0/
I’m planning to create a library that makes it easier to use the MediaWiki REST API from applications which already use m3api to interact with the Action API; input welcome here, as I’m not actually very familiar with the REST API: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T411325
new m3api-query release! 🎉 https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api-query/-/releases/v1.1.0
headline features: better continuation control, and documentation on doc.wikimedia.org
new m3api release! I moved the source code from GitHub to Wikimedia GitLab 🎉
to celebrate the occasion, here are 1.0.1 releases of all the packages:
m3api: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api/-/releases/v1.0.1
m3api-query: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api-query/-/releases/v1.0.1
m3api-botpassword: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api-botpassword/-/releases/v1.0.1
m3api-oauth2: https://gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/m3api/m3api-oauth2/-/releases/v1.0.1
(m3api is a JavaScript library for using the MediaWiki Action API 
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real-life use case for m3api automatically combining requests: WDactle needs both the contents of MediaWiki:Wikibase-SortedProperties (action=query, prop=revisions) and language information (action=query, meta=languageinfo); m3api gets and returns both in a single request \o/
new blog post: Introducing m3api https://lucaswerkmeister.de/posts/2025/04/12/introducing-m3api/
new package release: m3api v0.9.0, with a new accessToken option to replace authorization (easier to use that way); TypeScript declaration files; and usage recommendations in the README :) https://github.com/lucaswerkmeister/m3api/releases/tag/v0.9.0
Lucas Werkmeister
