[WikiEN-l] [[Daniel Brandt]] is gone again

[Bryan Derksen]

Bryan Derksen wrote:
> Tony Sidaway wrote:
>> On 6/14/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
>>> On 6/14/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>> Meanwhile there's now discussion on talk:Daniel Brandt about deleting
>>>> the article's history once the merge is complete
>>> As [[Special:Export]] no longer works for exporting the full history
>>> of an article, is there any way to do this without downloading the
>>> entire history dump?
>> Use api.php
>>
>> For instance this will download the last five revisions of "John
>> Lennon" in xml format.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?format=xmlfm&action=query&titles=John_Lennon&prop=revisions&rvprop=content&rvlimit=5
> 
> That maxes out at 500 revisions. Is there a way to change the offset?
> [[Daniel Brandt]] has over 2000 revisions.

My mistake, it actually maxes out at 50 for non-bot accounts. That's not
even as good as [[Special:Export]]. I also see now that there are
parameters for setting spans of revision IDs, but in chunks of 50 that's
over 40 queries to hand-craft.

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