Talk:API Development

Page Removal - Categories now serve this purpose

This page should really be removed, as applications should have their own pages under the Category:Third Party Development category and relevant subcategories.

The page was created while this category did not exist, and no longer serves any purpose. Category pages should be used as indexes, rather than a manually updated index page. --Ix Forres 16:21, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Please see my comments on the Talk:3rd_party_Applications page, although in the case of development projects, there is somewhat of a difference. Projects like Reve or Kwah's PHP API are tools that allow others to build their own apps, and as such need more documentation. Even then, some of these projects have more and better documentation elsewhere, and as a developer I would not always want to update documentation in two places. If all you're after is separate pages so projects can have extended descriptions, I'm still not sure if every project needs that, or if every project even wants that. I'd leave it up to the project admin/developer/whatever to choose. Sure, have the category pages and all that, but don't throw away this page and the 3rd Party Applications one. Have people listed there by default and have links go to extended pages that are in the specified category if needed. Don't force people to have one or two line new pages for their apps. --Ryushe 17:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

I would prefer to have generic information about API itself. It should contain URL, how to format correct query (maybe with python/php/ruby/C# examples) and fetch XML, cache times, errors, server accesibility and so. Oh, and put it under [[Category::API]] of course. -- Lumy 21:58, 12 December 2008 (UTC)