The MediaWiki API can handle MediaWiki redirects, so it should work.
2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: > It is for general synchronization purposes with an application that will need > to make changes to a page based on the page ID. The app will use the api to > create/edit pages and store it's page id in another DB. The app needs to be > able to fetch the page and edit, etc, and needs an unchanging unique id to do > this. It's got to handle when someone changes the page title which is also a > requirement. > > Al > > > > ________________________________ > From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> > To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin > list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:42 PM > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? > > It's hard to tell without knowing the nature of the back-end > application, but redirects should be robust enough. If they aren't, > then DISPLAYTITLE is probably OK, but I can't think of a reason for > redirects not to work. > > > 2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: >> I need the pages to be addressable by a unique id that does not change for >> back-end applications reasons. Are redirects my only option? >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> >> To: Al Johnson <[email protected]>; MediaWiki announcements and site admin >> list <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, December 9, 2012 11:19 PM >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Can I change the page title? >> >> Moving a page creates a redirect from the old name by default, so the >> old URL still works. >> >> You can also use the DISPLAYTITLE magic word, but it's less robust and >> should only be used in special cases. See >> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words . >> >> -- >> Amir >> >> 2012/12/10 Al Johnson <[email protected]>: >>> Is there a way to change the page title to something other than the default >>> WITHOUT changing the URL to the page? >>> >>> IOW, I want to make the page title editable and the link to the page before >>> the edit to still work. Possible? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Al >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MediaWiki-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >> _______________________________________________ >> MediaWiki-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
