https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58993

--- Comment #5 from Fæ <[email protected]> ---
From a (non-sysop) bot writing perspective, it would be great to be able to get
an array of previous deletions for an queried SHA-1. At the moment
pywikipediabot passes back a name of a matching file, but not all matches.

I suggest that the deleted file names are passed back (incredibly useful info
when these contain reference numbers from the original source, such as Flickr
photo ids) *unless* there were a reason to suppress the filename from the
deletion log. Other basic information (dates, uploader, editors) would be great
for a bot to take action on, or make decisions about. Scenarios include a bot
taking different actions based on whether it sees its name as a past uploader
or whether upload dates fall within the dates of a recent batch upload project.

There may be privacy issues on some data elements (such as listing all past
editors or uploaders), however I think we should expect to be able to
automatically distinguish between ordinary deleted material (such as copyvios)
and files which were deleted due to respect/privacy concerns.

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