On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Neil Harris wrote:
Well, we could also have
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foobar?md5=1234f53fa34f253f3453abf00f549120
which would identify a unique version with high probability, and also provide a way of verifying the integrity of the old version
Well heck, why use the name at all? (After all, pages can be renamed.) Add a hash field to the table, index it, and presto! Lookup an arbitrary version of any page, no matter how it's been shuffled around:
http://www.wikipedia.org/cite/1234f53fa34f253f3453abf00f549120
Crazy perhaps, but a thought. ;)
I'm not much for ugly incomprehensible URLs though...
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)