Thanks for your reply. Do you know other option?

More background about the reason of checking HTML revision:
We are currently getting every wikipedia revision by monitoring "api.php?action=query&prop=recentchange", and get both wikitext and HTML of the revision. From the comment of code, it seems we want to reduce the number of requests to api.php, so we are fetching HTML without using api.php.
The issue with fetching HTML without using api.php is that it's possible to get HTML at a different revision from the wikitext. So we need to find out a way to detect if the revision.


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Chad <innocentkiller@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jiang BIAN <bianjiang@google.com> 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
>
> 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?
>

You probably want something like this API query:

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Manual:Footer

-Chad

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