On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jiang BIAN <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi MediaWiki dev,
>
> I want to know the revision of a HTML of an article.
>
> I noticed that every page (no matter which namespace an article is in), the
> HTML contains a section "printfooter", and there will be a url after that
> looks like:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&amp;oldid=659536
>
> The "oldid=659536" is just the revision id of the HTML of an article.
>
> My question is, if this is a reliable way to find out the revision? Or is
> there other recommended way?
>

You probably want something like this API query:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Manual:Footer

-Chad

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