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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
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