On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
The oldid. At the moment, I trust our long-term viability more than a 2014 web-archiving startup, even one with praiseworthy names attached ;-)
Possibly an obvious remark: an oldid-based permalink gets you an old version of the source text of the specific page, but does not give you the original visible _result_: The page is reparsed and displayed using the _current_ version of all used templates, images, data from Wikidata etc. We do not store the complete state anywhere, so perma.cc does provide extra value here.
-- [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]