On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Claudia Müller-Birn
<clmb(a)inf.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
Hi all,
I don't know whether this is the correct mailing list to ask such question but it is
the one I am reading regularly…
Does anyone know about the adequate procedure to get permission to request deleted
revision information from the MediaWiki API?
I just stumbled over this problem...
{
"servedby": "mw1140",
"error": {
"code": "drpermissiondenied",
"info": "You don't have permission to view deleted revision
information"
}
}
For a personal wiki, this means you need the 'deletedhistory' and
'deletedtext'
permissions (which is by default assigned to the admin group).
On WMF wikis, this requires being an administrator (although I think there's
some exception for researchers handed out via Meta).
-Chad