I'm working on a bot to deal with the flood of no-source and untagged images
on the English Wikipedia. My current design calls for, once a day,
downloading the upload log for the previous 24 hours, then checking each
image description page and adding a template as appropriate. About 2000
images are uploaded each day, and only around 15% need tagging. What's the
best way of getting the wikitext of an article if there's an 85% chance that
you won't be editing it? Is Special:Export faster than starting an edit, or
is there some other method?
Thanks,
Mark
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