Yes I know you can do that, and in fact its what I do right now. The problem is that a few extra chars has a lot of impact in Twitter. A betetr approach would be if it was legal to write something like wikipedia.org/en/123456789 (26 chars) compared to en.wikipedia.org/aid/123456789 (30 chars) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=123456789 (44 chars). To get around the problem I use bit.ly for a bot, but its a bit stupid to not handle this in wikipedia itself.
John
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Petr Onderka gsvick@gmail.com wrote:
You can do that, only the URL is slightly longer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2312711
Although I don't understand what would be the benefit of doing that.
Petr Onderka [[User:Svick]]
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 14:09, John Erling Blad jeblad@gmail.com wrote:
In some cases it would be better to linke on article ids than their names, something like http://en.wikipedia.org/aid/123456
One example is as a link to an article in Wikipedia from tweet posted through the Twitter API.
John
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Bináris wikiposta@gmail.com wrote:
2012/2/18 Alex Brollo alex.brollo@gmail.com
Is there a sound reason to hidden so well the main id of pages? Is there any drawback to show it anywhere into wikies, and to use it much largely for links and API calls?
Deleting and restoring/recreating results in a new id, and pages take
their id upon renaming; is the id still useful for linking with these limitations? I just ask it because it is not perfectly clean for me what you mean by that.
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