[02:34:29] <blorbasaurus>	 hello. i'm learning more about using APIs, and practicing with wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=main#main:format says the default format is "jsonfm", but when i omit the "&format=" option, the results are equal to when i specify "&format=json". specifying "&format=jsonfm" yields something very different. so i think
[02:34:29] <blorbasaurus>	 the documentation is supposed to say 'the default format is "json"' instead of "jsonfm".
[02:37:14] <blorbasaurus>	 this is what i tried:
[02:37:15] <blorbasaurus>	 prefix='https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=opensearch&search=meow'
[02:37:15] <blorbasaurus>	 curl  "$prefix"
[02:37:16] <blorbasaurus>	 curl "$prefix"'&format=json'
[02:37:16] <blorbasaurus>	 curl "$prefix"'&format=jsonfm'
[14:00:51] <sudden>	 hi. is there a http cookie i can set to change mediawiki skin? i don't like rewriting all links to end with ?useskin=monobook because that gets written to disk when I save the web page with SingleFile (the firefox addon)
[14:39:16] <Lucas_WMDE>	 sudden: you can log in and select a different skin in your preferences
[14:42:08] <sudden>	 i'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve creating an account on 123 different wikis
[15:02:32] <perryprog>	 That would be kinda neat tbh.
[15:02:52] <perryprog>	 Having to log in to set a skin does feel silly when it could be a cookie thing.
[15:04:04] <Lucas_WMDE>	 MediaWiki isn’t really built to let anonymous users customize the site though, because that’s bad for caching
[15:07:03] <Lucas_WMDE>	 I think the appearance menu in V22 (text size, width, color light/dark) only works because it’s fully client-side, which is not the case for the skin
[15:09:04] <perryprog>	 oh, so true
[15:09:27] <perryprog>	 the internet people should make it so we don't need caching or something
[15:09:46] <Lucas_WMDE>	 :blobfoxangrylaugh:
[16:03:51] <sudden>	 fixed it. i append `?useskin=monobook` to the address if it doesn't exist, call `window.history.replaceState({}, "", window.location.href.replace("?useskin=monobook", ""));` to visually strip `?useskin=monobook` from the addressbar without reloading, then install `a.onmouseenter` and `a.onmouseleave` on every same-domain link that adds `?useskin=monobook` to avoid loading pages twice when navigating. 
[16:03:57] <sudden>	 when downloading such a page with SingleFile, the recorded URL does not contain `?useskin=monobook` and all links are clean!
[16:06:08] <sudden>	 if anyone wants the userscript, link me a file uploader, i don't know of any