Improve API:Allimages docs to state that it only checks last version
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	Jidanni
	Feb 13 2023, 8:59 AM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allimages&aiuser=Jidanni&aisort=timestamp&format=json&aiprop=url&aidir=descending&ailimit=488

What happens?:

It gets plenty of results.

What should have happened instead?:

It should also list
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fence_along_the_Montana%E2%80%93Alberta_border_-_19940726.jpg
but that is totally missing. One wonders what else is missing.

Software version (skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):

Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):

Maybe too many odd characters in the missing file's URL?

Details

Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
API: Fix query+allimages user parameter description	mediawiki/core	REL1_35	+1 -1
API: Fix query+allimages user parameter description	mediawiki/core	REL1_38	+1 -1
API: Fix query+allimages user parameter description	mediawiki/core	REL1_39	+1 -1
API: Fix query+allimages user parameter description	mediawiki/core	master	+1 -1

Customize query in gerrit

Related Objects

Mentioned Here: T67121: API: allow listing of all files uploaded by user similar to the $showAll option in SpecialListfiles.php

Event Timeline

Jidanni created this task.Feb 13 2023, 8:59 AM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptFeb 13 2023, 8:59 AM

Jidanni renamed this task from API skips some results to allimages API call skips some results.Feb 13 2023, 9:00 AM

taavi edited projects, added MediaWiki-Action-API, MediaWiki-Uploading; removed API Platform.Feb 13 2023, 9:01 AM

Wait, something redirects to it,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:19940726cardston.jpg&redirect=no
but that isn't in the results either.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Allimages doesn't mention anything special.

Someone else uploaded a new revision of that missing file after you uploaded it - maybe that's why it's not showing up?

In T329484#8608908, @Jidanni wrote:

Wait, something redirects to it,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:19940726cardston.jpg&redirect=no
but that isn't in the results either.

That one doesn't seem to be an actual file, just a redirect page.

The doc just says:

aiuser:
Only return files uploaded by this user. Can only be used with aisort=timestamp. Cannot be used together with aifilterbots.

It doesn't say it only checks the newest version. Maybe it should say that in the doc.

So what second call should I use to reach out in the dark and also grab cases like that?

OK, I can use
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AContributions&target=Jidanni&namespace=6&newOnly=1&start=2007-05-31&end=2007-08-01&limit=5 and there it is on top.

Aklapper renamed this task from allimages API call skips some results to Improve API:Allimages docs to state that it only checks last version.Feb 13 2023, 11:42 AM

Aklapper edited projects, added Documentation; removed MediaWiki-Uploading.