2009/6/25 Joseph Reagle reagle@mit.edu:
Can we make that even more succinct? Well, we could take a leaf from the DOI playbook, and set up something like:
So the oldid's are globally unique (among a language subdomain)? If that's the case, the answer to Charles' question of how hard it is could be not hard at all. (Perhaps even doable with some simple Apache rewrites, but WP is a complex architecture.)
My understanding is that the revision id is globally unique for a given wiki, yes. Handily, it also works for images - uploading an image generates a new revision id for the description page, so we can link to a specific version of the image without having to go for the bare URL.
(When I noted [site] there, incidentally, I was thinking of something which we manage inhouse, but operating through a new and shorter domain name for simplicity.)