On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:35 PM, Dan Garry <dgarry(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
By definition, a null edit does not perform any change
at all, and is
therefore not recorded publicly since there's technically nothing to
record. I suspect the only way you could find this kind of information is
in the server logs, and access to those is very tightly restricted for
privacy reasons.
Trusted volunteers can sign an NDA and get access to application logs (an
option that IMO we should promote more). Writing to the application logs
(ie. logstash) when a null edit happens would be a trivial and harmless
change. Writing to the MediaWiki action log would have a higher maintenance
and performance cost.