https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23427
--- Comment #20 from Waldir <[email protected]> 2011-08-02 14:42:28 UTC --- (In reply to comment #18) > So before we go and introduce this. Can we please get back or describe a > usecase for this ? > > The original request wanted to the author username and/or permalink to the > first revision, that's not what introducing {{PAGEID}} will do. No, that was just miscommunication. The author did clarify his original intentions later on: "The purpose of this bug was to get an ID which is not changeable as editing for a certain page progresses over time. (...) {{PAGEID}} would serve this purpose and to have it would be very cool." > At some later point there were references to *JavaScript* variables named > wgArticleId which already work in MediaWiki and have been for sometime, so we > won't need {{PAGEID}} in *wikitext* for that. We do if we want to use it in templates, as Bawolff suggested. > I'm in general a bit leery on introducing magic words, especially ones that > work on top of technical implementation details which are usually not > interesting to the user. I think Bawolff's short link proposal would be of interest. Granted, curid links aren't supposed to be a 100% stable permalinks, but the uses for a short url are mostly ephemeral / informal. For example, to share a Signpost article on Twitter, etc. It's not a big deal if the link eventually rots, especially since that's very unlikely (tough not impossible) to happen. In any case, we do rot links daily when deleting articles, so I don't think this should be an impediment. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
