On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Claudia Müller-Birn <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
