On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Daan Kuijsten <[email protected]>wrote:
> A better way for fetching content via an API is to assign a unique ID to a > section, a paragraph, a table, an image etc. This way we could simply fetch > a part of the content of wikipedia via this ID. > That doesn't sound much better. Say a vandal blanks a page then someone reverts, and probably all your unique ID numbers will have changed. Or someone renames a section or edits a paragraph, or combines two sections, or splits a section into two, etc. -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
