Right, but the point is to avoid an extra round trip just to get a URL.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Bartosz Dziewoński <matma....@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2015-10-19 17:28, Brian Gerstle wrote:
>
>> It's been mentioned elsewhere (I believe by Gergo) that these URLs aren't
>> stable, and can't be reliably constructed by clients. Is that still the
>> case?
>>
>
> The URL looks different for very long file names and for different file
> types. There is an API endpoint to get it, though:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ApiSandbox#action=query&prop=imageinfo&format=json&iiprop=url&iiurlwidth=40&titles=File%3AExample.jpg
>
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