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Is there a way to show "who contributed to this line" of each line of a page of Wikipedia or of a MediaWiki site?

It would show per page and would be similar to the subversion blame tool.

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Do you want to find the first occurrence of a specific word or phrase in a page's revision history, or is this question about something else? There must be some way to download the full revision history for a specific page, but I haven't found it yet. – Anderson Green Nov 26 '12 at 17:59
Yeah that's about right. – rogerdpack Nov 26 '12 at 18:01
It's very easy to do this using WikiBlame, as explained here: webapps.stackexchange.com/a/35914/20087 – Anderson Green Nov 26 '12 at 19:19
Wow that's pretty close. Looks like that one drills in to find the committer of "given words" in the wiki page, maybe it could be modified to show the entire page :) – rogerdpack Nov 26 '12 at 19:55
It already shows the revision where the text was added, so you can just click on that link to see what the entire page looked like when the text was added. – Anderson Green Nov 26 '12 at 20:02

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I often need something like this as well, but it looks like there's no ready solution.

What I've done is written a script that helps me grab revisions using the MediaWiki API and import them to the Bazaar version control system. bzr qblame article.wiki, then gives a nice view of who changed what. The script is not really ready for release, but I've uploaded it to Pastebin, in case anyone is sufficiently interested. The script adds to a mercurial repo, which can then be converted to Bazaar.

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