thanks Brad, I created an account in Tools Lab and a public SSH key. How
long will it take to approve my request before I can submit queries?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Brad Jorsch (Anomie) <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:11 AM, practikal mind <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> How do I find out the range of pageids that are currently in use in
>> wikipedia?
>>
>
> I don't know of any straightforward way to do this via the API. But if you
> get an account on Tool Labs,[1] it's a simple SQL query: SELECT
> MIN(page_id), MAX(page_id) FROM page.
>
>  [1]: https://tools.wmflabs.org/
>
>
>> Do pageids always remain constant?
>>
>
> If a page is deleted and then undeleted, the page id might change.
>
>
>> Can a certain pageid cease to exist?
>>
>
> If the page is deleted, yes. Special:MergeHistory will probably eliminate
> one of the involved page ids too.
>
>
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> Software Engineer
> Wikimedia Foundation
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