On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Amir Ladsgroup <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
It's strange for me why new pages hasn't been implemented in API yet.
We can retrieve recent changes and filter new pages (as we did in
pywikibot to retrieve new pages) but if we want new pages of English
Wikipedia in a certain day (or certain number) we need to retrieve ALL
of edits made during that period of time, which is bad for global
warming. Is there any reason not to implement new pages API
functionality. If it's okay, I'll start working on it
Note that Special:NewPages only works over the pages still on
Special:RecentChanges, just as
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&…
does.
If you do decide to try to do this, do make sure your database queries
are sensible, without excessive row scans or filesorts.
--
Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation