On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Amir Ladsgroup ladsgroup@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&r... does.
If you do decide to try to do this, do make sure your database queries are sensible, without excessive row scans or filesorts.