The "logevents" API should return the same data as Special:Log. For example,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&letit...
This can be filtered further to just delete events, and so on.
But if you only want to know whether an article exists or not, "missing" should be accurate. Can you share some example URLs for which the page exists, but the API returns "missing"?
Kind regards, Adam W.
On 10/27/21 3:40 AM, D Z wrote:
Hello All,
I am doing research investigating the role of machine translation in Wikipedia articles. I am having trouble with how to know if an article has been deleted from Wikipedia. Specifically, I am getting a list of articles from the cxtranslation list and I would like to know which articles are no longer on Wikipedia. I see that there is the deletion log form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Log/delete but is there an API or some way to access something like this form so I could check if a mass amount of articles have been deleted?
I have used the Media Wiki API https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php to get articles and the API returns missing for some articles, but this does not seem to be fully accurate for determining if an article has been deleted because the API has returned 'missing' for articles that do exist.
To summarize, my main question is: given an article language edition and article title, or an article pageid, is there an API to check if the article has been deleted?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
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