Author: wempwer
Description:
User contributions feeds such as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=rss&user=Esanchez7587 should only display changes that user introduced to the page. Currently it display all text on the page what does not make any sense at all.
Version: unspecified
Severity: normal
URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Catrope&feedformat=atom
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10268
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | Feature | None | T5646 RSS, Atom, XML syndication feeds (tracking) | ||
| Open | None | T43085 User contributions feed should match index.php feed format (diff etc.) |
wempwer: Thanks for the report. You did receive a reply in comment 1. Priority has been set to High but not to Highest as manpower is unfortunately limited. For faster progress patches are always welcome, if that's an option.
durgasubramanian94 wrote:
I am interested in working on this bug, can somebody please assign it to me?
Durga: You claimed this bug in December. Are you (still) working on this? If not, please reset the assignee to default and the status to NEW. Thanks!
For those not accustomed to the feeds, the problem is easily seen by comparing to &feed=atom&action=history :
In particular the good feed has the diff in <summary> and a link to it in <link>.
Currently api.php?action=feedcontributions is close to useless.
After https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/132589/ by Robin, the feed items link the diff, but the content is still the whole page (just tested on mediawiki.org).
This bug is equivalent to bug 10268 (concerning the watchlist feed). These two bugs should probably be fixed in the same way.
Change 143904 had a related patch set uploaded by Rohan013:
FeedContributions now shows diffs instead of whole articles.
Hello,
I have found this bug while searching if it was already reported and from what I understand (not very used to phabricator/gerrit, sorry if I am wrong) a patch has been submitted 18 months ago and the last comment from September seems to conclude that it needs more discussion. Is there any plan to have this discussion?
If I can give some input, I had cancelled my RSS feeds to user's contribution as getting the whole article instead of the diff proved to be useless and seemed to me to be a bug but I had never taken time to report it and had just unsubscribed from the feeds. Some days ago I tried again with Special:RecentChangesLinked and discovered it was now showing the tab in a diff, proving to be useful and was hoping it to be the same for user's contributions, which does not seem to be the case (yet?). So as a user of this feature, I can just confirm that having it showing the diff (even if that means having an extra parameter to add to the url) would definitely be a good news! (sorry if it is not the best place to report that, please point me to the correct place if needed).
Thanks,
Sylvain
The patch in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/143904/ needs rework, as per comments in Gerrit.
Anybody is welcome to improve the patch so an updated version can get reviewed again (and hopefully merged).
@rohan013: Are you still working on this (as you are set as task assignee) and plan to improve the patch?
@rohan013: Hi, I'm resetting the task assignee due to inactivity. Please feel free to reclaim this task if you plan to work on this - it would be welcome! Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bug_management/Assignee_cleanup for more information - thanks!