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How can I get details about reverted edits of a wiki page?

I am using pywikibot in python to get all revisions of a Wikipedia page.

import pywikibot as pw wikiPage='Narthaki' page = pw.Page(pw.Site('en'), wikiPage) revs = page.revisions(content=True)

How do I know which of the revisions were reverts? I see from https://xtools.wmflabs.org/articleinfo/en.wikipedia.org/Narthaki that the page has one revert edit. Not sure how to get more information about this from the revision object.

Request your help. Many thanks!

Solution

  • "Revert" is not a well-defined concept so it depends on how you define it. (See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152434 for some relevant discussion.) The most capable revert detection tool today is probably mwrevert.