Adam Baso, 24/02/2015 01:41:
(2) More conventional provenance (e.g.,
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Castle&oldid=645632619/ref=_…
provenance info as desired>/).
Downside: technically speaking, may break the schema of well-formed titles
Break, how so? Parameters to short URLs are a hack which is not in
MediaWiki core. (2) is more standard, not less, AFAICS. Any MediaWiki
code should follow the {{fullurl:}} pattern. Of course this is not
MediaWiki code and we already have things like
wiki/Special:Search?search=query&sourceid=Mozilla-search
Nemo