I tried that, but the 'from' argument doesn't seem to do anything. I can put anything there and I always get the most recent changes. On 5 jun. 2013, at 18:19, Wjhonson <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:

Or see here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recentchanges It appears there IS a way to do this, in the API at any rate. -----Original Message----- From: Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad.strackvanschijndel(a)gmail.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 1:58 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changes on specific date I tried that, but the 'from' argument doesn't seem to do anything. I can put anything there and I always get the most recent changes. On 5 jun. 2013, at 18:19, Wjhonson <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

I can demonstrate that this is false http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChang… http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChang… http://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php?title=Special:RecentChang… As you can see, three different lists, the largest one corresponds to 150 days -----Original Message----- From: Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 2:37 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changes on specific date On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 22:57:45 +0200, Ad Strack van Schijndel <ad.strackvanschijndel(a)gmail.com> wrote: anything there and I always get the most recent changes. You'd still only get data from the last 30 days, as that's simply how much is stored in the database. There's a config variable which controls the duration whose name escaped me at the moment, though. -- Matma Rex _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Um duh it does not. I use the standard config settings. Duh. -----Original Message----- From: Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 3:06 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changes on specific date On Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:42:36 +0200, Wjhonson <wjhonson(a)aol.com> wrote: This simply means your wiki has the config variable set to a larger value, duh. -- Matma Rex _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

It's possible that you're wrong :) My Mediawiki install has always been this way. -----Original Message----- From: Bartosz Dziewoński <matma.rex(a)gmail.com> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Wed, Jun 5, 2013 4:25 pm Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Changes on specific date Well, then this is just accidental and these will be deleted sooner or later. I bothered to find the variable's name and its doc page for you: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgRCMaxAge -- Matma Rex _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l