Good points, all. Clearly I didn't think much before sending my reply ;/
#2 - you can linkto/reference old versions of a page, which are
guaranteed not
to change.good point - what's the syntax for this?
http://serveraddy.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=pagename&oldid=xxxxx
Unfortunately, the "oldid" isn't human readable, and current versions are not given IDs - the latter is bug 181 (http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181)
And the best, best thing possible would be if mediawiki was modular enough
that
more than one frontend for editing/publishing could be written in terms of
it -
that would save a lot of headaches when it comes to writing the wiki that
is a word
replacement and actually turns wiki content into publishing material
(PDFS, etc).
Would be nice... good luck finding someone to do the work...
- Chris Wood http://grace.2ya.com/ New Zealand