Rosetta Code/List authors of task descriptions

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Rosetta Code/List authors of task descriptions is a draft programming task. It is not yet considered ready to be promoted as a complete task, for reasons that should be found in its talk page.

In this task, the goal is to compile an authorship list for task descriptions. A pseudocode example (in imperative style) that should accomplish this is as follows:

<lang pseudocode>for each task page 

 grab page source, discard everything after the first ==section==.

Cache as $previous. Note $author. 

 for each revision
   grab page source, discard everything after first ==section==.

Cache as $previous2. Note $author2 

   compare $previous2 to $previous. If different, record $author to $list.
   replace $previous with $previous2
   replace $author with $author2</lang>

The following resources for HTTP interface information for MediaWiki may prove to be useful:

Conversely, some languages have libraries which abstract these interfaces into language-native idioms. Use of these abstractions is perfectly fine.

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