Thanks for the quick feedback. One additional question - aren't "Featured articles" locked when they are labeled as such? Could we say that timestamps for the "Category:Featured article" are more reliable because less vulnerable to vandalism?
-- Sérgio Nunes On 10 February 2010 11:50, Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/2/10 S. Nunes <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to know using the MediaWiki API when an article was >> added to a given category? >> More specifically, I'm looking for the dates when featured articles >> where labeled as featured. >> >> If this turns out to be impossible via the API, how can this >> information be obtained otherwise? >> > This data isn't really stored anywhere. There's a timestamp in the > categorylinks table, but that's not totally reliable: if a vandal > blanks the page and someone restores it, the latter edit will be > considered as having added the category. I'm also not sure > cl_timestamp correctly identifies the last edit that added the > category in all cases anyway. > > To obtain this timestamp (with limited usefulness as described above), > use one of: > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=categories&clprop=timestamp&titles=Albert_Einstein > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=categorymembers&cmprop=ids|title|timestamp&cmtitle=Category:1879_births > > Roan Kattouw (Catrope) > > _______________________________________________ > 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
