On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ryan Shaw <[email protected]> wrote: > > So, my question is: is there any way to query for first revisions in > batches? Alternatively, if there some other source of this > information, such as data dumps? Since I am only looking for the > timestamps of the first revision of each article, I'd like to avoid > downloading complete histories for each article.
You could use the query service on the toolserver: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Query_service The toolserver doesn't keep the content of revisions, but you only want metadata anyway so that's not a problem. -- Stephen Bain [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
