2009/5/31 sl contrib <[email protected]>:
> On the other hand it seem
> strange though that I can't get easily get all 'events' between two dates.
You can, with recentchanges. It has its limitations, but IMO you
should be able to cope with them.

> Would it somehow be possible to build an intermediate solution? E.g. would
> it be feasible to build a dedicated
> action=query&prop=allchanges&start=...&end=...
> that just solved that problem?
For revisions, possibly. It wouldn't include log events, though.

> I guess in principle it's possible to build this, but it might be quite
> inefficient, seeing as maintenance/rebuildrecentchanges.php says "This takes
> several hours, depending on the database size and server configuration."
...and as you might've guessed, inefficient stuff has no chance of
being enabled on larger wikis.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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