Hi all,

thank you for your feedback.

@Roy this is a good point, I honestly did not think about it before.
However, in the back of my mind, I remembered this problem had been
solved before. There is a beta feature called visual diffs.

If you enable this feature and navigate to
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:RoySmith/sandbox&type=revision&diff=1031413484&oldid=1031413445&diffmode=visual

you see the text "math formula changed" this is exactly what I was
looking for. Unfortunately, I was not yet able to figure out if there
is an API to get the visual diffs. I had expected it to be in
RESTbase, but nothing there.

If I can get to that API the problem would be simple enough to start
with the implementation.

All the best
Moritz

On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:39 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Note on ORES as one of its maintainers:
> ORES doesn't use recent changes for getting content and scoring edits. It hits the API.
>
> HTH
>
> On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 3:18 PM Robin Hood <RobinHood70@live.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I’m no expert, but I believe the only way to get a diff via the API is through https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Compare. I haven’t worked with it to any great degree, though, so I’m afraid I can’t help beyond pointing you in that direction.
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>> From: Physikerwelt <wiki@physikerwelt.de>
>> Sent: July 1, 2021 8:17 AM
>> To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> Cc: andre.greiner-petter <andre.greiner-petter@zbmath.org>; Aaron Halfaker <ahalfaker@wikimedia.org>
>> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Stream of recent changes diffs
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>>
>> Dear all,
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>>
>> we have developed a tool that is (in some cases) capable of checking if formulae in <math/>-tags in the context of a wikitext fragment are likely to be correct or not. We would like to test the tool on the recent changes. From
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>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recent_changes_stream
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>>
>> we can get the stream of recent changes. However, I did not find a way to get the diff (either in HTML or Wikitext) to figure out how the content was changed. The only option I see is to request the revision text manually additionally. This would be a few unnecessary requests since most of the changes do not change <math/>-tags. I assume that others, i.e., ORES
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>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES,
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>>
>> compute the diffs anyhow and wonder if there is an easier way to get the diffs from the recent changes stream without additional requests.
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>> All the best
>>
>> Physikerwelt (Moritz Schubotz)
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