On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Strainu <strainu10(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2010/10/4 Alex Brollo <alex.brollo(a)gmail.com>om>:
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
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