--- /dev/null
+From 49b148ee4c10fdf671288331217bd4dd0304b8b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Ian Weller <ian@ianweller.org>
+Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:31:07 -0600
+Subject: Forget about version checking for right now
+
+---
+ simplemediawiki.py | 11 +----------
+ 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/simplemediawiki.py b/simplemediawiki.py
+index 2934ab9..ec12a11 100644
+--- a/simplemediawiki.py
++++ b/simplemediawiki.py
+@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ class MediaWiki():
+ _high_limits = None
+ _namespaces = None
+ _psuedo_namespaces = None
+- _mediawiki_version = None
+
+ def __init__(self, api_url, cookie_file=None, user_agent=DEFAULT_UA):
+ self._api_url = api_url
+@@ -111,17 +110,9 @@ class MediaWiki():
+ in order to test whether the given URL will return JSON.
+ """
+ data = self._fetch_http(api_url, {'action': 'query',
+- 'meta': 'siteinfo',
+- 'siprop': 'general',
+- 'format': 'json'})
++ 'meta': 'siteinfo'})
+ try:
+ data_json = json.loads(data)
+- # may as well set the version
+- try:
+- version_string = data_json['query']['general']['generator']
+- self._mediawiki_version = version_string.split(' ', 1)[1]
+- except KeyError:
+- pass
+ return (data, data_json)
+ except ValueError:
+ return (data, None)
+--
+1.7.2.3
+