In version 1.18 the query
https://wikisource.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&leaction=newusers/create&leprop=user%7Ctimestamp&lelimit=500
would allow one to filter out new users who were created on wiki, from those that are automatically created. There looks to have been a change to the API with the introduction of "letype" though not all the functionality seems to flow through.
The closest that I can get the query would now be
?action=query&list=logevents&leprop=type|user|timestamp&lelimit=5&letype=newusers
which shows
<api>
<query> <logevents> <item type="newusers" action="autocreate" user="Rhy0614" timestamp="2012-04-01T10:12:21Z" /> <item type="newusers" action="autocreate" user="Kratzbaum" timestamp="2012-04-01T10:09:42Z" /> <item type="newusers" action="autocreate" user="Mogadir" timestamp="2012-04-01T10:04:32Z" /> <item type="newusers" action="autocreate" user="Yuvalbleich" timestamp="2012-04-01T09:53:55Z" /> <item type="newusers" action="create" user="MacixeXopuji" timestamp="2012-04-01T09:36:22Z" /> </logevents> </query>
</api>
One cannot filter on
&leaction=create
and it seems to be that all the newuser actions are non-existent, and the instructions would seem to show that too.
Version: 1.19
Severity: major