Access previous page revisions

Access previous page revisions

leiger 25 May 2011 01:17

I've posted a wish for this, here: http://feedback.wikidot.com/wish:599

I would like to be able to retrieve previous revisions of a page using the API.

This would allow us to:

• Revert to previous revisions of the page (either officially supported, or manually by re-saving with older source code)
• Use Wikidot as a CVS server for files, by saving files as pages.
• Be able to list all users that have ever edited a page… from it's whole history

Please rate this wish up if you would also like to see it implemented.

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Discussing this here… would you use this? Do you have any other suggestions for how this might be useful? Etc.

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~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
Wikidot: Wikidot Editor, Official Docs
Other: YouTube (gaming, primarily Minecraft)

Last edited on 25 May 2011 01:19 by leiger Show more

Re: Access previous page revisions

leiger 25 May 2011 01:18

As a possible way to implement this… perhaps the pages.get_one method could allow an optional parameter - the revision number. If not specified, it defaults to the latest revision of the page.

This, combined with the number of revisions that we already have, would be enough to make this accessible to developers.

The only other thing to deal with then is how it works in the back-end code (which may be the deal-breaker, if it is going to be too complex to implement).

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~ Shane (Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer)
Wikidot: Wikidot Editor, Official Docs
Other: YouTube (gaming, primarily Minecraft)

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