If you are trying to get an idea of reputation you might mean to be looking at reverted edits, not deleted ones. Not sure its a better metric, but i would expect rather few users to have deleted edits.

Oh, yes, you're right, it seems I misunderstand the meaning of "deleted edits". The "reverted edits" are exactly I'm looking for. But how can I get it? Is there an API for it? @Erik Bernhardson @Platonides Thanks a lot! 2015-10-30 9:25 GMT+08:00 Platonides &lt;platonides(a)gmail.com <mailto:platonides@gmail.com>>: On 29/10/15 05:10, Erik Bernhardson wrote: If you are trying to get an idea of reputation you might mean to be looking at reverted edits, not deleted ones. Not sure its a better metric, but i would expect rather few users to have deleted edits. If only the number of deleted edits is needed (instead of the actual contents), that may be available via stats websites. Also note that having many deleted edits is in itself not a sign of being untrusted. Quite the opposite, the people with more deleted edits will be those that perform maintenance tasks most, placing many deletion templates (whether they correctly evaluated or not the article merits before placing such templates is a different matter) Regards _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Mediawiki-api@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api -- Zhang Shiyue *Tel*: +86 18801167900 *E-mail*: byryuer(a)gmail.com <mailto:byryuer@gmail.com>, yuer3677(a)163.com <mailto:yuer3677@163.com> State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology No.10 Xitucheng Road, Haidian District Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

Hi Zhang, You should check out Aaron Halfaker's revert detection toolkit here: http://pythonhosted.org/mwreverts/ Also, if you have additional questions about researching Wikipedia, you can ask them on our research mailing list as well: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l Best, Jonathan On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Ricordisamoa &lt;ricordisamoa(a)openmailbox.org -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)>