2009/6/25 Joseph Reagle <rea...@mit.edu>: >> Can we make that even more succinct? Well, we could take a leaf from >> the DOI playbook, and set up something like: >> >> http://[site]/wp:en/6042007 > > So the oldid's are globally unique (among a language subdomain)? If that's > the case, the answer to Charles' question of how hard it is could be not > hard at all. (Perhaps even doable with some simple Apache rewrites, but > WP is a complex architecture.)
My understanding is that the revision id is globally unique for a given wiki, yes. Handily, it also works for images - uploading an image generates a new revision id for the description page, so we can link to a specific version of the image without having to go for the bare URL. (When I noted [site] there, incidentally, I was thinking of something which we manage inhouse, but operating through a new and shorter domain name for simplicity.) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l