Weird - when I checked this
page<http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Variable#Examples_of_combinations>yesterday,
for example:
The {{REVISIONID}} showed only blank. Same thing when I tried in Appropedia.
Today they both work. Can't fathom how that could be, unless someone's
slipping hallucinogens into my drink.
I still have a problem though: I want to insert the actual value of the
revision id. The most recent one is fine. (Inserting the *new* revision id,
of the new version being saved at that moment, is a nice idea but I suspect
is not doable at this stage.)
{{subst:REVISIONID}} looks like what I need, but it doesn't work (and that's
confirmed by other statements I found online, regardless of hallucinogens.)
{{subst:REVISIONTIMESTAMP}} is a similar concept and it works fine, but the
timestamp doesn't work in a diff url, which is what I need.
Thanks,
Chris
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 02:42, Chris Watkins
<[email protected]>wrote:
> It seems like {{REVISIONID}} doesn't
> work<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12694>.
> I've tried it on Wikipedia, Wikiversity and Appropedia, and it comes out
> blank.
>
> Is there another way that I can insert a revision ID into a document? I
> want to do it with a bot, rather than manually for each page.
>
> It should probably be the last revision id, as I need to "subst:" the
> value, and I'm guessing that won't work with the current value. But I'll try
> anything, and I'm not so concerned whether it's the current or previous
> revision ID.
>
>
> I asked on Pywikipedia-L, and got this response. Unfortunately it requires
> coding, and I don't understand it - so I'm wondering if there's another
> option.
>
> You're looking for the Page.latestRevision() function here:
>
> nicd...@host:~/pywikipedia$ python
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Oct 5 2008, 19:24:49)
> [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import wikipedia
> Checked for running processes. 1 processes currently running,
> including the current process.
> >>> mainpage = wikipedia.Page(wikipedia.
>
> getSite('en', 'wikipedia'), 'Main Page')
> >>> mainpage.latestRevision()
> Getting 1 pages from wikipedia:en...
> 260905624
>
> But you'll have to code yourself in python to insert it somewhere...
> It's sort of a "custom" use.
>
>
> Thanks!
> --
> Chris Watkins (a.k.a. Chriswaterguy)
>
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>
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>
> I like this: five.sentenc.es
>
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I like this: five.sentenc.es
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