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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
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