[Commons-l] Towards a Commons API

[Stephen Bain]

On 8/17/07, Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Being able to have
> per-category feeds would be extremely cool. Imagine such a feed on QI
> or FP. Totally awesome.

We do keep timestamp data in the categorylinks table, so it's possible
to work out roughly when a page was added to a category. However,
AFAIK this is not actually used anywhere.

On a related note, for my Facebook work I put together a patch to
allow timestamp data to be exposed through API queries. This would
effectively allow many of the Flickr-like functions that are so
popular (latest images in a category, for example):

http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10890

Note that it would be good if some technical types can check this out
to make sure it actually works.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com