https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38450

--- Comment #10 from Richard Guk <[email protected]> 2012-09-04 09:23:30 
UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> (In reply to comment #7)
> > Whether accidentally or by design, "oldid" values are correctly mapped to 
> > the
> > current revision of the relevant page when oldid matches a revisionid, as
> > expected.
> You think that's the correct behavior?

On balance, yes. In the absence of functionality for returning info about
superseded revisions, it is a reasonable fallback - *some* of the returned info
relates to the page ID so is relevant and accurate regardless of whether the
revision is current.

But it would be even better if the revision-specific info were accurate or
blanked instead of defaulting to the info for a later revision.

And it certainly should not default to returning info about the main page if
the revision does not exist.

(Recent wider discussion of merits of returning info about non-current
revisions:
[[mw:Talk:Requests_for_comment/Reimplement_info_action]]#Applicability_to_old_revisions
)

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