Changes in version 1.5.0 (2017-02-05) BUG FIXES o https is now the default for requests (Thanks to Hiroaki Yutani) o UTF-8 page names and similar are properly handled (Thanks to Hiroaki Yutani) Changes in version 1.4.0 (2016-06-10) NEW FEATURES o `random_page` now allows you to return more than one page. o `page_backlinks` does as well; thanks to Brock Tibert for the code. DOCUMENTATION o Vignette tweaks made o Package-level documentation improved. DEVELOPMENT o "Depends" switched out for "Imports" to avoid annoying loading messages. Changes in version 1.3.0 (2016-01-13) BUG FIXES o Various miscellaneous internal improvements. o `limit` introduced as an argument to pages_in_category - thanks to Ben Marwick for finding the bug. o `limit` introduced as an argument to page_links - thanks to Hui Li of the Universität Heidelberg for the initial report. Changes in version 1.2.0 (2015-05-18) NEW FEATURES o *Random pages can now be retrieved with random_page *pageID based querying is available *Custom user DEVELOPMENT o *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 Changes in version 1.0.1 (2014-08-17) o Roxygenised documentation, some R CHECK errors fixed. o Test suite added for error handlers. Changes in version 1.0.0 (2014-04-27) o First release version o Introduction of wiki_usercontribs, which retrieves recent contributions for a specified username o Bugfixes to error handling routines o Bugfix to problems around wiki_con, where species or commons users were unable to take advantage of CurlOpts. Changes in version 0.7.0 o 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. Changes in version 0.6.3 o Standardisation and cleanup of error handlers, and the introduction of a single central LimitHandler. Changes in version 0.6.2 o Bug fix from Scott Chamberlain around wiki_page, switching the content type over to x-wikitext. o Introduction of w_timeout as a field in the connector object; will be extended to other CURL options in time. Changes in version 0.6.1 o Support for Commons and Wikispecies o Addition of wiki_recentchanges(), which allows a useR to query the recentchanges feed. Changes in version 0.5.1 o Format for wiki_revision changed from the (unacceptable-to-API) text/css to x/wikitext. o Error handling improved to pass the full error explanation through to the user, in the case of API errors.