2009/8/20 Michael Dale mdale@wikimedia.org:

Is there a reason "Module recentchanges cannot be used as a generator" ?

The real reason is probably "it was never done". A hurdle I can think of right now is that while you probably want recentchanges to generate revisions instead of pages (so that generator=recentchanges&prop=revisions does what you expect), but not all entries in recentchanges are revisions: some are log events that have no associated revision (like user rights changes). There's also the other issue that a module can either output its result (normal mode) or pass it to another module (generator), but can't do both. This means that when using RC as a generator you'll essentially use all the extra information RC provides; the only information you get about the RC result is which titles it contained. Adding an option to list the intermediate result should not be very difficult and sounds like a good idea. I'll open a bug about this when I have time.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)