In some cases it would be better to linke on article ids than their names, something like http://en.wikipedia.org/aid/123456
One example is as a link to an article in Wikipedia from tweet posted through the Twitter API. John On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Bináris <[email protected]> wrote: > 2012/2/18 Alex Brollo <[email protected]> > >> Is there a sound reason to hidden so well the main id of pages? Is there >> any drawback to show it anywhere into wikies, and to use it much largely >> for links and API calls? >> >> Deleting and restoring/recreating results in a new id, and pages take > their id upon renaming; is the id still useful for linking with these > limitations? I just ask it because it is not perfectly clean for me what > you mean by that. > > > -- > Bináris > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
