This task involves the work with extending the existing DiscussionTools API(s) in way(s) that enable developers to access to the discussion metadata Usability Improvements introduces.

Story

• As someone who is responsible for a bot that helps volunteers track the activity happening withing discussions, I'd value the ability to directly access the activity data DiscussionTools computes/tracks, so that I do not need to duplicate computation that is already being done upstream/elsewhere.

Use Cases

• Show the following pieces of information about the discussions that have taken place on an arbitrary page, as is done on hu.wiki here:
  • The title of the discussion
  • The date the discussion was started
  • The date of the last edit that was made to the discussion
  • The number of comments within the discussion
  • The size, as measured in bytes, of the discussion

This ticket was inspired by the question @binbot posted at hu.wiki here.

@VirginiaPoundstone and the Platform Team have expressed interest in gaining similar access to the data this ticket is describing as part of the work they are doing to improve https://api.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page .