Access to deleted revisions requires particular user rights
('deletedhistory' for the equivalent of the history page and
'deletedtext'
to see the wikitext), in large part because such revisions are often
deleted for legal or privacy reasons.
To get this access on the English Wikipedia, you would have to become an
administrator, checkuser, or oversighter, or you would have to work out
whether
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Committee is still active
and willing to grant the "Researcher" group.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:12 AM, shiyue zhang <byryuer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
*发件人:* shiyue zhang [mailto:byryuer@gmail.com]
*发送时间:* 2015年3月10日 22:04
*收件人:* mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*主题:* why I can't see deleted revision information?
Hello,
I’m a new user of Wikipedia. My username is Yuer3677.
I’m a senior student in BUPT China, since I am working on my graduating
thesis, which is related to Wikipedia, I really need to get the deleted
revision information.
I try to use action=“query” and list=” deletedrevs”, but the result is
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api servedby="mw1192">
<error code="drvpermissiondenied" info="You don’t have permission to
view deleted revision information" xml:space="preserve">See
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php for API usage</error>
</api>
So, I want to know why I can’t view the deleted revision information?
Since I really need the data to do my research, what can I do to get the
information?
Please help me. Thanks a lot!
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