Hi Elisavet,

You can identify reverts using the sha1 checksum of revisions You can use the mwreverts library[0] to do that in the dump. Editquality[1] repository has such a use case for detecting reverts. You will not be able to detect partial reverts but it will detect identity reverts which form majority of the reverts.

- Regards

Sumit Asthana

[0] - https://pythonhosted.org/mwreverts/

[1] - https://github.com/wikimedia/editquality/blob/master/editquality/utilities/extract_damaging.py#L160

On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 2:55 AM Elisavet Koutsiana <elisavetkoutsiana@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I wanted to ask if there is any canonical way to identify deletion, reverts etc in the edit history xml files. I can understand that the action of every revision is described in the "comment" element of the xml format, but is there a code name or number or anything else that will help me to identify one revision for example as deletion?

Thank you,
Elisavet
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