On Jul 1, 2021, at 9:18 AM, Robin Hood <RobinHood70@LIVE.CA> wrote:

I’m no expert, but I believe the only way to get a diff via the API is throughhttps://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.

 

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

 

Dear all,

 

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

 

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recent_changes_stream

 

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

 

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES,

 

compute the diffs anyhow and wonder if there is an easier way to get the diffs from the recent changes stream without additional requests.

 

All the best

Physikerwelt (Moritz Schubotz)

 

 

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