On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Platonides <platonides@gmail.com> wrote:
On 14/03/13 15:43, Jiang BIAN wrote:
> Hi MediaWiki dev,
>
> I want to know the revision of a HTML of an article.
>
> I noticed that every page (no matter which namespace an article is in),
> the HTML contains a section "printfooter", and there will be a url after
> that looks like:
> http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&amp;oldid=659536 <http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&amp;oldid=659536>
>
> The "oldid=659536" is just the revision id of the HTML of an article.
>
> My question is, if this is a reliable way to find out the revision? Or
> is there other recommended way?
>
>
> Thanks

You will also have it in the "Permanent link" link of the sidebar and as
Thanks for pointing out :)  seems I can use this as a double-check.
 
wgCurRevisionId in the javascript variables set at the top.
The value in this variable should always be the latest revision of the article, right? 
 


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