2016-09-30 10:26 GMT+03:00 Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com>om>:
Thank you very much Daniel, this is exactly what I was
looking for.
Just to be sure, is that timestamp also updated when a template in the
page is changed? I would expect so.
Sorry, just saw that you already answered this one in the original email.
Regards,
Strainu
2016-09-30 10:12 GMT+03:00 Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler(a)wikimedia.de>de>:
> You can check recentchanges for the page. Relevant changes to wikidata items
> used on a page are injected into the recentchanges stream, so they show up in
> the watchlist of people watching the page on wikipedia. You may need to set
> rctype=edit|external in your API query though.
>
> Note that this does not (yet) work for the page history, just recentchanges.
>
> You can also look at the "touched" timestamp as returned by the API:
>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=info&titles=Main%20Page>
>
> This will be updated whenever the page is purged/rerendered, e.g. when a
> template changed - or a wikidata item.
>
> HTH
> Daniel
>
> Am 30.09.2016 um 01:59 schrieb Strainu:
>> With the advent of Wikidata-based infoboxes, the page contents can
>> change without the local text being changed, so without a new
>> revision. Is there any way tho find out when this happens from the
>> API? I know I can always do 2 API calls, one for the page and one for
>> the item, but that's time consuming.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Strainu
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