Thank you very much Daniel, this is exactly what I was looking for. Just to be sure, is that timestamp also updated when a template in the page is changed? I would expect so.

Regards, Strainu 2016-09-30 10:12 GMT+03:00 Daniel Kinzler &lt;daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de&gt;de>: > You can check recentchanges for the page. Relevant changes to wikidata items > used on a page are injected into the recentchanges stream, so they show up in > the watchlist of people watching the page on wikipedia. You may need to set > rctype=edit|external in your API query though. > > Note that this does not (yet) work for the page history, just recentchanges. > > You can also look at the "touched" timestamp as returned by the API: > <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main%20Page> > > This will be updated whenever the page is purged/rerendered, e.g. when a > template changed - or a wikidata item. > > HTH > Daniel > > Am 30.09.2016 um 01:59 schrieb Strainu: >> With the advent of Wikidata-based infoboxes, the page contents can >> change without the local text being changed, so without a new >> revision. Is there any way tho find out when this happens from the >> API? I know I can always do 2 API calls, one for the page and one for >> the item, but that's time consuming. >> >> Thanks, >> Strainu >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > > > -- > Daniel Kinzler > Senior Software Developer > > Wikimedia Deutschland > Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l