History and diffs

Revision history

List the edits to a page, newest first, with id, timestamp, author, byte size, and edit summary:

wiki revisions "Go (programming language)" -n 20

Filter to one author:

wiki revisions "Climate change" --user Jimbo -o jsonl

The output carries everything you need to drill in: the revid of any row is what diff and read --rev take.

Diffs

Compare two revisions. Give one id and you get the diff against its parent:

wiki diff 123456789

Give two ids to compare them directly, or use --to with prev, next, or cur:

wiki diff 123456789 123460000
wiki diff 123456789 --to next

For humans, the diff prints as familiar +/- lines. In a structured format each line becomes a row with its operation, so you can post-process it:

wiki diff 123456789 -o jsonl

A small workflow

Find the most recent edit to a page and see what it changed:

rev=$(wiki revisions "Pi" -n 1 --fields revid -o csv --no-header)
wiki diff "$rev" --to prev