This isn't helpful now, but your use case is relevant to something I hope
to pursue in the future: comprehensive mediawiki change events, including
content.  I don't have a great place yet for collecting these use cases, so
I added it to Modern Event Platform parent ticket
<https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T185233> so I don't forget. :)



On Thu, Jul 1, 2021 at 8:17 AM Physikerwelt <[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> we have developed a tool that is (in some cases) capable of checking if
> formulae in <math/>-tags in the context of a wikitext fragment are likely
> to be correct or not. We would like to test the tool on the recent changes.
> From
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Recent_changes_stream
>
> we can get the stream of recent changes. However, I did not find a way to
> get the diff (either in HTML or Wikitext) to figure out how the content was
> changed. The only option I see is to request the revision text manually
> additionally. This would be a few unnecessary requests since most of the
> changes do not change <math/>-tags. I assume that others, i.e., ORES
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ORES,
>
> compute the diffs anyhow and wonder if there is an easier way to get the
> diffs from the recent changes stream without additional requests.
>
> All the best
> Physikerwelt (Moritz Schubotz)
>
>
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