On 2/20/09 2:22 PM, Chris Watkins wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a regression on
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3979

> 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.)

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6181

It's not really possible with our current architecture, since the 
revision ID has not yet been assigned at the time we save the text into 
the database.

-- brion

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