-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Beigel wrote: > Is there a way (or a plan to implement one) to retrieve the list of > unique contributors for a given article (from a given revision down to > the first one)? Ideally this would accept parameters for the mentioned > filtering. I guess inside of MediaWiki code this can be handled very > efficiently (using appropriate database queries) and would eliminate > the need to transfer lots of redundant data over the socket.
Given that this could require filtering through hundreds of thousands of unique revisions for a single request, I don't think we currently have a good plan for that. :) Doing it sensibly would require adding infrastructure for storing a "major authors list" for later retrieval with minimal incremental processing, and this has not yet been done. - -- brion -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkCDQMACgkQwRnhpk1wk47JcACdE/NJlwPurO/s3n8Y2bOVtVqV pGsAn1d3gc0VETv7fzBgId/GCwIxJ2xZ =qhdS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
