On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote:
> given a difflink between two states of a page, is there a way to tell by > bot, how many modifications there are? I.e. in how many fragments those two > differ? I know, this is not an exact question, but the software itself > interprets it somehow as it tries to emphasize differences with colors. > Unless you need to reproduce MediaWiki's exact method of computing diffs (which is actually configuration-dependent), there is no point in relying on the API. Just fetch the two revisions and calculate the distance yourself. The article about edit distance [0] might help you refine the question. If you are looking for a pywikibot-based solution, editdistance [1] seems like the right library for the job. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit_distance [1] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/editdistance _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
