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New thread on Talk:Easter Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=compare&fromrev=1203018841&torev=1203024750&format=json
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This diff adds a new sentence to the article and also adds a new link to a source.
In this one diff these two sources are cited:
Given a watchlist:
Given a pair (or batch of them):
The problems I have with this approach:
In the future when we have a centralized service doing this work, because we are doing something more complicated than screens against RSP,
The user script:
What about this "service"? If I set up WRDB as an ongoing, self-updated service, then all this service would need to do is check the revision ID in WRDB. At the moment, however, WRDB only supports a one-time build, and domain information is not directly stored in the database. However, this will help with support for non-URL references in the future.
| Location | Revision(s) | Extracts URL from link label | "Type" | Old revision ID | New revision ID | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Page history | First revision; no subsequent revisions | none! | new | Currently invisible to Test Wikipedia branch | ||
| Page history | First revision | cur | new | none | (curid:) oldid= | It was the "curid" when it was new |
| Page history | Subsequent revision | prev | diff | (diff:) extract previous revision ID from oldid= | (oldid:) oldid= | |
| Watchlist and Recent Changes | First revision | hist | new | none | (curid:) curid= | |
| Watchlist and Recent Changes | Subsequent revision | diff | diff | (diff:) extract previous revision ID from diff= | (oldid:) diff= |
