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&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 _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
