Hello All, I am doing research investigating the role of machine translation in Wikipedia articles. I am having trouble with how to know if an article has been deleted from Wikipedia. Specifically, I am getting a list of articles from the cxtranslation list and I would like to know which articles are no longer on Wikipedia. I see that there is the deletion log form <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete> but is there an API or some way to access something like this form so I could check if a mass amount of articles have been deleted?
I have used the Media Wiki API <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php> to get articles and the API returns missing for some articles, but this does not seem to be fully accurate for determining if an article has been deleted because the API has returned 'missing' for articles that do exist. To summarize, my main question is: given an article language edition and article title, or an article pageid, is there an API to check if the article has been deleted? Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Doris Zhou _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list -- wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wiki-research-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
