On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Strainu <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/10/4 Alex Brollo <[email protected]>: >> It's strange (but I guess that there's a sound reason) that plain wikilinks >> point to a variable field of wiki records (the name of the page) while many >> troubles would be solved, if they could point to the invariable field of >> such records: the id. The obviuos restult is, that all links are broken (and >> need fixing) as soon as a page is "moved" (t.i. renamed). > > Don't redirects exist specifically for that? Better, use permalinks, which point to a specific revision id.
> >> >> My question is: which is the sound reason for this strange thing? There's >> some idea about fixing this? > > Err.. perhaps they decided people should be able to comprehend the > link destianation? Plus I remember something about "nice URLs" being a > MUST DO in SEO a while ago...but I'm not 100% sure on that. I > certainly hope this won't change anytime soon, on Wikipedia at least. It 'd be nice to have the page_id as optional parameter... but I think you can get the page's title via the API. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
