[Engineering] Deprecating rest.wikimedia.org in favor of /api/rest_v1/

Thu Apr 14 23:04:54 UTC 2016

Final reminder on this: We are planning to finally sunset
rest.wikimedia.org in the week starting April 25th, 1 1/2 weeks from
now. Please move your REST API clients to /api/rest_v1/ at the regular
project domains instead!

Thanks,

Gabriel

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:00 AM, Gabriel Wicke <gwicke at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We have decided to officially retire the rest.wikimedia.org domain in
> favor of /api/rest_v1/ at each individual project domain. For example,
>
>
>   https://rest.wikimedia.org/en.wikipedia.org/v1/?doc
>
> becomes
>
>   https://en.wikipedia.org/api/rest_v1/?doc
>
> Most clients already use the new path, and benefit from better
> performance from geo-distributed caching, no additional DNS lookups,
> and sharing of TLS / HTTP2 connections.
>
> We intend to shut down the rest.wikimedia.org entry point around
> March, so please adjust your clients to use /api/rest_v1/ soon.
>
> Thank you for your cooperation,
>
> Gabriel
>
> --
> Gabriel Wicke
> Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation

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Gabriel Wicke
Principal Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation