Thank you for such a prompt answer. You are right, this is an "alias" article and I had missed this.
-- Sérgio Nunes 2008/6/3 Russell Blau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This is not a bug. The page [[Tamilla Abasova]] has only one revision. You > are trying to find the revision history of its redirect target, [[Tamilla > Abassova]], I suspect, so you might want to add "&redirects" to your query. > > Russ > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "S. Nunes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "MediaWiki API announcements & discussion" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:08 AM > Subject: [Mediawiki-api] Bug on querying revisions > > > Hi, > > It seems that there is a bug on the MediaWiki API regarding querying > old revisions. > > The following call to the API should return the first revision made to > the "Tamilla_Abasova" article. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&rvprop=ids&rvlimit=1&rvdir=newer&titles=Tamilla_Abasova > > However, instead of returning 37099272 (the correct answer) the value > returned is 216581660 (the latest revision). > This problem seems to happen only when the article has a small number > of revisions. > > Is this a known problem? > Where should I submit this bug report to? > > -- > Sérgio Nunes > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > _______________________________________________ > Mediawiki-api mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
