The Cunctator wrote:
That reminds me...can we add a little <permanent URL for this version> at the bottom of the article pages?
We can find the link to the archived copy of previous versions, but there's presently no way to make a hard link to the presently displayed version.
That would be a very simple step in making Wikipedia usable as an "authoritative" resource, for one thing.
It's also helpful for internal discussions if you want to have a discussion comparing different versions of the same entry.
Yes, this would be very helpful! I've actually before gone in and made zero-edits (rearrange whitespace or something) so that the "current" version gets bumped into the history and I can refer to it specifically in a talk-page discussion (as in "at least in the current version [1], there is odd wording in the 3rd paragraph"). Would be much more direct if the current version also was referenceable by a revision-number.
-Mark