On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:45 AM, jeph jephpaul@gmail.com wrote:
I'm building an edit visualisation tool , demo. I'm trying to get the total number of edits to show the user & for a few other things. I haven't been able to retrieve it from the API, though I can see it in the info page of an article eg, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=JSON&action=info#mw-pageinfo-... Any pointers to a solution will be really helpful :-)
There isn't any way to get that in the API right now. A very helpful solution would be to submit a patch to add it ;) You can look at includes/actions/InfoAction.php for the implementation of action=info, and includes/api/ApiQueryInfo.php would probably be the right place to put it in the API.
As a workaround for number of edits, you could simply use prop=revisions&rvprop=&rvlimit=max and count the number of revisions you get back.