That said, there was an attempt in 2013 to provide Memento support, which would (partially) mitigate this problem by using appropriate templates:
http://mementoweb.org/wikipedia/ Of course, this would still be vulnerable to deleted images etc. And we weren't even thinking about Wikidata transclusions then :-) Andrew. On 23 January 2015 at 16:09, Petr Kadlec <petr.kad...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk> > wrote: > >> The oldid. At the moment, I trust our long-term viability more than a >> 2014 web-archiving startup, even one with praiseworthy names attached >> ;-) >> > > Possibly an obvious remark: an oldid-based permalink gets you an old > version of the source text of the specific page, but does not give you the > original visible _result_: The page is reparsed and displayed using the > _current_ version of all used templates, images, data from Wikidata etc. We > do not store the complete state anywhere, so perma.cc does provide extra > value here. > > -- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
