On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Jiang BIAN bianjiang@google.com wrote:

Thanks for your reply. Do you know other option?

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.

I haven't looked at the performance recently, but i suspect this api call

would be more efficient: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=parse&oldid=659536

If not, please let me know what performance issues you have seen.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Platonides platonides@gmail.com wrote:

On 14/03/13 15:43, Jiang BIAN wrote:

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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&oldid=659536< http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&oldid=659536%3E

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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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