I have not found a way, to get images sorted by timestamp, so there is no way to simulate Special:NewFiles with the api.
Please allow sorting by timestamp for list=allimages with optional start/end
(see list=categorymembers for a example of timestamp sorting in an api module).
Thanks.
Version: 1.21.x
Severity: enhancement
soxred93 wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcnamespace=6&rctype=new simulates NewFiles.
Bryan.TongMinh wrote:
The person doing this should take a careful look into the indices on the image table, which may are all single column indices.
(In reply to comment #1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=recentchanges&rcnamespace=6&rctype=new
simulates NewFiles.
No, that are only created pages in file namespace (file description, maybe of shared files), not new uploaded files. That simulate http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ANewPages&namespace=6
File description created by upload are not listed in recentchanges, only the log event.
soxred93 wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&letype=upload maybe?
(In reply to comment #4)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&letype=upload
maybe?
That looks better. But contains deleted files.
Ping - would some developers/maintainers review the patch in gerrit (see comment 8, +172, -50) please?