You can do that, only the URL is slightly longer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2312711
Although I don't understand what would be the benefit of doing that. Petr Onderka [[User:Svick]] On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 14:09, John Erling Blad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
