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Jiang BIAN

14 Mar 2013 14 Mar '13

4:43 p.m.

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=6595… 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 -- Jiang BIAN This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

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Chad

14 Mar 14 Mar

4:52 p.m.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jiang BIAN <bianjiang(a)google.com> wrote:

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You probably want something like this API query: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&tit… -Chad

Jiang BIAN

5:11 p.m.

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(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Jiang BIAN <bianjiang(a)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&oldid=6595…

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&tit… -Chad _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list Mediawiki-api(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api

-- Jiang BIAN This email may be confidential or privileged. If you received this communication by mistake, please don't forward it to anyone else, please erase all copies and attachments, and please let me know that it went to the wrong person. Thanks.

Yuri Astrakhan

5:55 p.m.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Jiang BIAN <bianjiang(a)google.com> wrote:

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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.

Platonides

5:11 p.m.

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=6595… <http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&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 wgCurRevisionId in the javascript variables set at the top.

Jiang BIAN

5:36 p.m.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 8:11 AM, Platonides <platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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

http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&oldid=6595… http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Footer&oldid=6595…

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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.

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wgCurRevisionId in the javascript variables set at the top.

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The value in this variable should always be the latest revision of the article, right?

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