Are you sure that patrol status is shown as colour coding on history pages? I'm pretty sure its not.
If you mean kind of the dim yellow colour (like in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_programs_broadcast_by_Adu... for the moment, but that will likely change soon), that means a pending change, which is a different system from patrolling.
Note, on enwikipedia (but not other projects) RC patrolling is disabled, and only new page patrol is enabled (so only the first revision can have a patrol status).
-- Brian
On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:13 PM Сибирев Кирилл sibirev@yandex-team.ru wrote:
Hi, we are using wikimedia http api for getting pages recent changes [1]. We'd like to be able to distinguish patrolled and unpatrolled revisions and this feature is supported according to docs, but we still can't use it because of access permissions. For example if i making requests like [2] or [3] i am getting {"code": "permissiondenied", "info": "You need the "patrol" or "patrolmarks" right to request the patrolled flag."} error.
This API behaviour looks inconsistent to me, because anyone can see patrolled/unpatrolled colored markup at wikipedia revision history web pages. I think patrol right should be checked only at write (ones that mark revisions patrolled or not) API requests and not for read requests.
Is this behaviour really inconsistent and implemented that way due to technical restrictions or am i missing something? Can it be changed, so we can get patrolling information for revisions or maybe there are some workarounds exist?
[1] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:RecentChanges [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&r... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&r...
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