[Mediawiki-api] Get diffs?

[Brianna Laugher]

2008/8/20 Bryan Tong Minh <bryan.tongminh at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Brianna Laugher
> <brianna.laugher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Diff.php?view=markup>
>> doesn't look like it is particularly straightforward to implement, and
>> rather than doing so, couldn't it be made available via the API?
>>
> Has been a frequently requested feature, but is WONTFIX due to
> performance issues.

Really? Is it in Bugzilla?

A couple of interesting bugs I found:
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10268> "Watchlist RSS
feed should include diffs" (marked RESOLVED, LATER which seems a bit
weird to me?)

<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3998> "support
change-centric in addition to page-centric behavior mode for Recent
Changes Atom feed"

- although this is not closed, I just had a look at en.wikipedia's RC
feed, and it has coloured diffs in it, so maybe this bug can be
closed.

Anyway I opened a new bug
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15254> "Page history
feeds should have diff view, like RecentChanges feed".

After thinking about it it makes the most sense to me that the
(index.php) feeds should provide a diff view, and the API should not
-- for machine purposes the pretty HTML diff is probably not much use.

However, it may be nice if the diff algorithm implementation was
available as a kind of standalone implementation. Does anyone know
much about it?

thanks,
Brianna

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