Farkas, Illes wrote: > Hello, > > We're trying to find for each featured article the time when it > acquired featured status. > > At 22:07 on 15 July 2008 GimmeBot modified the page "King Arthur" with > the comment "GimmeBot adding FA star". > http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=King_Arthur&diff=226083953&oldid=225893595 > > Do you think a pattern match /addding\s+\S+\s+star/ (in the comments > field) would be the most reliable/appropriate way of finding in the > history dump file the time when each of the featured articles acquired > this status?
This would only get the cases where it was added by the bot, the FA system almost certainly predates it, and may even predate the star in articles. > Or do you happen to know of a special page listing this time for each > featured article ? > > Thanks a lot in advance. You'll want to use the subpages of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Featured_log though that doesn't include instances of articles being de-featured. -- Alex (wikipedia:en:User:Mr.Z-man) _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
