Topic on Talk:Requests for comment/Wikidata API

The MW API has q lot of design issues an I'm unhappy enough as it is we have to deal with those. The "correct" way to ApiQuery system however seems to introduce one additional issue: binding to a specific DB schema. Anything that introduces such horrid dependencies on details form such a high level component is not going to go in.

As we discussed on IRC, there is no need to use the ApiQueryBase's database access layer by the extension module, so no schema dependency. Moreover, I think we will try to move to an interface-based modules for all extensions, and possibly even refactor the core modules.