[Wikipedia-l] Special:Export of Special pages

[Anthony DiPierro]

For recentchanges and newpages you can use a url such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
to get a somewhat easier to parse format.  This doesn't work for
Special:Contributions though, and I have no idea how hard it would be
to patch Mediawiki to make it work.

Anthony

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 13:58:15 +0100, Gerrit <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> for special pages, it is not possible to get the source code, because
> they are generated. I am thinking of Recentchanges, Contributions, etc.
> Is it possible to export those pages? It would make parsing easier.
> 
> I want to parse my Contributions in order to create some statistics
> about them. Yes, I'm aware of Kate's tools, but these do not enable me
> to see 1) the size of my changes, 2) the number of Newpages I created.
> 
> Without the latter, 'number of edits' doesn't say too much. It is
> relatively low for me (User:Gerritholl) because I spent time writing
> articles in one go, not doing minor edits for VfD, FAC, etc. I want to
> see more meaningful statistics on myself (and others...).
> 
> regards,
> Gerrit.
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