NEWS

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WikipediR 1.5.0 (2017-02-05)

BUG FIXES

• https is now the default for requests (Thanks to Hiroaki Yutani)
• UTF-8 page names and similar are properly handled (Thanks to Hiroaki Yutani)

WikipediR 1.4.0 (2016-06-10)

NEW FEATURES

• 'random_page' now allows you to return more than one page.
• 'page_backlinks' does as well; thanks to Brock Tibert for the code.

DOCUMENTATION

• Vignette tweaks made
• Package-level documentation improved.

DEVELOPMENT

• "Depends" switched out for "Imports" to avoid annoying loading messages.

WikipediR 1.3.0 (2016-01-13)

BUG FIXES

• Various miscellaneous internal improvements.
• 'limit' introduced as an argument to pages_in_category - thanks to Ben Marwick for finding the bug.
• 'limit' introduced as an argument to page_links - thanks to Hui Li of the Universität Heidelberg for the initial report.

WikipediR 1.2.0 (2015-05-18)

NEW FEATURES

• *Random pages can now be retrieved with random_page *pageID based querying is available *Custom user

DEVELOPMENT

• *Doc tweaks and some simplification of argument parsing around page_content and random_page *Additional unit tests *query() marked as exportable to allow simple third-party plugins into WikipediR

WikipediR 1.0.1 (2014-08-17)

• Roxygenised documentation, some R CHECK errors fixed.
• Test suite added for error handlers.

WikipediR 1.0.0 (2014-04-27)

• First release version
• Introduction of wiki_usercontribs, which retrieves recent contributions for a specified username
• Bugfixes to error handling routines
• Bugfix to problems around wiki_con, where species or commons users were unable to take advantage of CurlOpts.

WikipediR 0.7.0

• wiki_page now returns the DOM of the relevant page, not the wikimarkup, in line with a suggestion from Scott Chamberlain. This should be parsable by the HTML tree parser in the XML package.

WikipediR 0.6.3

• Standardisation and cleanup of error handlers, and the introduction of a single central LimitHandler.

WikipediR 0.6.2

• Bug fix from Scott Chamberlain around wiki_page, switching the content type over to x-wikitext.
• Introduction of w_timeout as a field in the connector object; will be extended to other CURL options in time.

WikipediR 0.6.1

• Support for Commons and Wikispecies
• Addition of wiki_recentchanges(), which allows a useR to query the recentchanges feed.

WikipediR 0.5.1

• Format for wiki_revision changed from the (unacceptable-to-API) text/css to x/wikitext.
• Error handling improved to pass the full error explanation through to the user, in the case of API errors.