https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21572
Nemo <federicol...@tiscali.it> changed:
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--- Comment #25 from Nemo <federicol...@tiscali.it> 2012-11-18 10:40:46 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> > Do you think it would take many lines of code to implement a similar
> > functionality for [[Special:Newest/190868168]] ?
>
> No. It would be easy to code. But i don't think it's the path to go.
> If its only reason is for "safe links", curid already does that. Manually
> creating links to Special:Newest wouldn't be easier than creating curid links.
Platonides, how safe is curid?
(Krinkle on bug 42085 comment 14)
> (In reply to comment #13)
> > Some short urls, which works:
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org?curid=15580374
> > https://en.wikipedia.org?diff=521573414
> >
>
> These have been discussed in the past and should never be used as a short url.
> Diff is a difference view, hardly useful. I assume that should be "oldid"
> instead:
> https://en.wikipedia.org?oldid=521573414
>
> Which is a permanent link to a certain revision, however revisions can be
> removed, hidden or merged. And one probably wants to link to the latest
> version
> of an article.
> '"curid" isn't very useful either because that links to the pageid, and
> articles can be renamed, deleted, re-created, merged, and split. What we want
> is link to a title, this is what the shorturl extension does. It creates a
> short unique ID for titles.
...which is wrong at least for renames because Roan said:
(In comment #11)
> The point of curid links is to be able to
> link to a page even after a move, so that if [[Foo]] was moved to [[Bar]]
> later, a URL like http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123 would point to
> the new name.
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