2009/5/31 sl contrib sl.contrib@googlemail.com:
On the other hand it seem strange though that I can't get easily get all 'events' between two dates.
You can, with recentchanges. It has its limitations, but IMO you should be able to cope with them.
Would it somehow be possible to build an intermediate solution? E.g. would it be feasible to build a dedicated action=query&prop=allchanges&start=...&end=... that just solved that problem?
For revisions, possibly. It wouldn't include log events, though.
I guess in principle it's possible to build this, but it might be quite inefficient, seeing as maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php says "This takes several hours, depending on the database size and server configuration."
...and as you might've guessed, inefficient stuff has no chance of being enabled on larger wikis.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)