El 04/04/10 17:43, Nicolas Vervelle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to obtain the pageid of a page, even if the page has been deleted.
> Requests like this one

> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?rvprop=content%7Cids%7Ctimestamp&prop=revisions%7Cinfo&action=query&titles=Synapse_Graphics&format=xml>

> return the pageid only if the page is still existing.
>
> I have written a tool, WikiCleaner

> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:NicoV/Wikipedia_Cleaner/Documentation>,

> that can, among other things, help for the Check Wikipedia Project

> <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Stefan_K%C3%BChn/Check_Wikipedia>.

> When an error is fixed, my tool calls an URL to notify the fix has been
> done (see the Done button on this page

> <http://toolserver.org/%7Esk/cgi-bin/checkwiki/checkwiki.cgi?project=enwiki&view=only&id=58>).

> In the URL, there's a parameter required for the pageid.
> When the page has been deleted since the error was detected, I'd like to
> automatically notify the fix has been done, but I can't get the pageid
> from the API.
>
> Nico

Is that really useful?
I'd ask Stefan to allow a title if the page was deleted.