On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:07:21 -0700, Denny Vrandečić denny.vrandecic@wikimedia.de wrote:
2012/8/9 Daniel Friesen lists@nadir-seen-fire.com:
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 02:37:39 -0700, Jens Albrecht jens.alb@gmx.net wrote:
Hi,
is there a way to show a page not by using the title-form "index.php/Main_Page" but instead by using the page id like "index.php?pageid=X" ?
I hope you get what I mean! Sorry for bad english.
Regards
&curid= should work.
However you should avoid it as much as possible. There are multiple situations where the page id for one page can change.
-- ~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
Can someone give examples of these situations? I thought the page id would be even more stable than the page title for a page.
(Maybe the answer is: it depends on what you regard as "a page")
Cheers, Denny
This was actually a mediawiki-l mail. I use a gmane with a newsreader but have to send via email. So I have to set the To: line manually every time. I barely ever post to mediawiki-l so I instinctively used wikitech-l instead by accident.
The primary case where a page id changes is deletion. If someone randomly deletes a page (even if they have no valid reason and it's later undeleted) when it's undeleted it usually comes back with a different page_id. Because deletion is done by deleting the page row and inserting revisions into the archive table.