I want to return a list of images in a category with the date the image was taken, to put historical images in a timeline. Currently
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query%2Bcategorymembers only has cmprop=timestamp, the date the image was added to mediawiki, rather than when it was originally taken (or painted etc), which is often recorded in the Date file for the items. Currently I would need to extract filenames and do requests for each one with query and pageprops to extract the date.
This would allow timelines of how a location has changed over time, how an artist's style develops, etc