Design MediaWiki REST API

From atwg
Description Design and prototype a REST API that would enable the full functionality of the desktop web experience in MediaWiki Core (and "critical" extensions?) with cacheability and consistent parameters, property names and objects. Note that this highly depends on the overall design of information flow (see Output 1.1)
Associated Outputs [[Output:2.1|]]
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Primary Team MediaWiki Platform
Collaborating Teams Services, Reading Infrastructure
Start Year 0
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Duration (months) 6
Depends On Tasks Identify features that the REST API needs to support,Refactor MediaWiki Core into well encapsulated components, removing global state and circular dependencies between classes
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Notes Should be designed by a group consisting of members from the MW Platform team, Services, Readers and Contributors. This ensures that those who know the MW platform best, those who have experience designing REST services, and those who implement the clients all agree on the design