Hi MediaWiki Team,
I am Kristofer, a final year IT student from the University of Queensland
in Brisbane, Australia. I am currently working on my thesis titled "*Data
Quality in Wikidata over time*", which will investigate the overall
increase in data quality in Wikidata Items over the years as more
information and detail is added through the addition of more statements,
qualifiers and references.
And so, I am writing this email to ask whether it is possible for me to
fetch the entire revision history of an item through the MediaWiki API? I
understand that there is a "View History" Tab in every Wikidata Item page,
however I have not been able to find a way to access that through the API.
Older versions of an Item will allow me to show that the data quality has
steadily increased over time as more information of that item is updated.
Your help in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance
and I hope to hear from you soon.
Kind Regards,
Kristofer Anandita