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Johannes Beigel wrote:
Is there a way (or a plan to implement one) to retrieve the list of unique contributors for a given article (from a given revision down to the first one)? Ideally this would accept parameters for the mentioned filtering. I guess inside of MediaWiki code this can be handled very efficiently (using appropriate database queries) and would eliminate the need to transfer lots of redundant data over the socket.
Given that this could require filtering through hundreds of thousands of unique revisions for a single request, I don't think we currently have a good plan for that. :)
Doing it sensibly would require adding infrastructure for storing a "major authors list" for later retrieval with minimal incremental processing, and this has not yet been done.
- -- brion