On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Claudia Müller-Birn clmb@inf.fu-berlin.de wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know whether this is the correct mailing list to ask such question but it is the one I am reading regularly…
Does anyone know about the adequate procedure to get permission to request deleted revision information from the MediaWiki API?
I just stumbled over this problem...
{ "servedby": "mw1140", "error": { "code": "drpermissiondenied", "info": "You don't have permission to view deleted revision information" } }
For a personal wiki, this means you need the 'deletedhistory' and 'deletedtext' permissions (which is by default assigned to the admin group).
On WMF wikis, this requires being an administrator (although I think there's some exception for researchers handed out via Meta).
-Chad