https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17104





--- Comment #1 from Gurch <matthew.brit...@btinternet.com>  2009-01-21 18:59:24 
UTC ---
Wouldn't it be better to fix the other end of the issue, and not show the "mark
as patrolled" link on diffs if the edit is already patrolled, regardless of
what's in the URL?

I asked for the rcid part to be added in order that bots and editing tools (the
main consumers of the RC feed) are able to patrol (and sight) pages. Before it
was added, it was difficult to obtain this value when all you had was a page
name or revision ID. It was particularly difficult for new page patrolling --
the only place the rcid was actually shown was on Special:Newpages, or on
article pages arrived at by following links from Special:Newpages. This meant
that in order to patrol a given page, the tool would have to load up
special:newpages and scrape the rcid from it... unless the page wasn't in the
top however many, in which case it would have to load more and more of it, or
give up.

If this is removed, please provide some alternative method for bots and editing
tools to obtain the rcid given a revision id.


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